Random hyperlinks everywhere!

Hiya

We're on Excel 2002 SP3 and use Windows XP.

Our database here at my work is HUGE... and incorporates a mixture of names,
addresses...etc... plus EMAIL addresses. These email addresses show as
hyperlinks, which of course causes our default email program to open up and
input that email address in the "to" line so that we can email that
person.... which totally isn't a problem and exactly what we want.

The problem I'm having now though lies upon any row that has an email
address. ...(we have multiple email addresses in our rows along with other
data)... If I click on ANYTHING in that row... even something that ISN'T an
email address, or a hyperlink (i.e. a name, city, or whatever that is
standard text)... it's doing the whole "mailto:" thing and opening up my
email program and inserting a RANDOM email address that was pulled from our
database.

What's even more strange…. is that it's only applied to some of the columns
on the right. It appears the first half of our columns aren't affected by
this.

Now I've TRIED the Microsoft help menu to "deactivate several hyperlinks"
and it refers me to go to "paste special" under the edit screen, then click
"OPERATION"?? I don't even seen an option to choose "operation" at this
point. The only screens I see are - source: "unicode text" or "text" and
neither of those options work while selecting multiple cells.

I know I can go through the 10,000+ cells and right click on each and select
"remove hyperlink"... but that just seems silly if there can be a faster way.

Also... I have NO idea how this problem started... it just started doing
this within the past day or so.

Please help! =(

I'll continuously check this and I'll be happy to provide any further
details.

If you can select all the cells with hyperlinks that you want to clear (like
columns B:IV, say), you can clear them all in that selected area by:

hit alt-f11 (to get to the VBE)
hit ctrl-g (to see the immediate window)

type this and hit enter:
selection.hyperlinks.delete

You can do it in steps if you have to.

FNORD wrote:
>
> Hiya
>
> We're on Excel 2002 SP3 and use Windows XP.
>
> Our database here at my work is HUGE... and incorporates a mixture of names,
> addresses...etc... plus EMAIL addresses. These email addresses show as
> hyperlinks, which of course causes our default email program to open up and
> input that email address in the "to" line so that we can email that
> person.... which totally isn't a problem and exactly what we want.
>
> The problem I'm having now though lies upon any row that has an email
> address. ...(we have multiple email addresses in our rows along with other
> data)... If I click on ANYTHING in that row... even something that ISN'T an
> email address, or a hyperlink (i.e. a name, city, or whatever that is
> standard text)... it's doing the whole "mailto:" thing and opening up my
> email program and inserting a RANDOM email address that was pulled from our
> database.
>
> What's even more strange…. is that it's only applied to some of the columns
> on the right. It appears the first half of our columns aren't affected by
> this.
>
> Now I've TRIED the Microsoft help menu to "deactivate several hyperlinks"
> and it refers me to go to "paste special" under the edit screen, then click
> "OPERATION"?? I don't even seen an option to choose "operation" at this
> point. The only screens I see are - source: "unicode text" or "text" and
> neither of those options work while selecting multiple cells.
>
> I know I can go through the 10,000+ cells and right click on each and select
> "remove hyperlink"... but that just seems silly if there can be a faster way.
>
> Also... I have NO idea how this problem started... it just started doing
> this within the past day or so.
>
> Please help! =(
>
> I'll continuously check this and I'll be happy to provide any further
> details.

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Dave Peterson