prevent cell content from being interpreted as a hyperlink?

Is there some way of formatting cells that prevents cell content from being
interpreted as a hyperlink?

Thanks,

Keith

xl2002 added a feature to turn this off.

tools|autocorrect|autoformat as you type tab
uncheck that top box.

If you're using xl2k or below, hit ctrl-z as soon as excel converts it to a
hyperlink.

Or start your entry with an apostrophe:

'www.microsoft.com

keithb wrote:
>
> Is there some way of formatting cells that prevents cell content from being
> interpreted as a hyperlink?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Keith

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Dave Peterson

I have 'inherited' a group of spreadsheets that has cells containing @
symbols, and tools|autocorrect|autoformat replace as you type is unchecked.
Even so, Excel treats these cell as a hyperlink. How can remove the
hyperlink treatement while retaining the cell content?

Thanks,

Keith



"Dave Peterson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> xl2002 added a feature to turn this off.
>
> tools|autocorrect|autoformat as you type tab
> uncheck that top box.
>
> If you're using xl2k or below, hit ctrl-z as soon as excel converts it to
> a
> hyperlink.
>
> Or start your entry with an apostrophe:
>
> 'www.microsoft.com
>
> keithb wrote:
>>
>> Is there some way of formatting cells that prevents cell content from
>> being
>> interpreted as a hyperlink?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Keith
>
> --
>
> Dave Peterson

Select the range to clean up
(ctrl-a (twice in xl2003) will select the whole sheet.)
then hit alt-f8 (to get to the VBE)
then hit ctrl-g (to see the immediate window)

type this and hit enter
selection.hyperlinks.delete

Then back to excel to see what happened.

keithb wrote:
>
> I have 'inherited' a group of spreadsheets that has cells containing @
> symbols, and tools|autocorrect|autoformat replace as you type is unchecked.
> Even so, Excel treats these cell as a hyperlink. How can remove the
> hyperlink treatement while retaining the cell content?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Keith
>
> "Dave Peterson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > xl2002 added a feature to turn this off.
> >
> > tools|autocorrect|autoformat as you type tab
> > uncheck that top box.
> >
> > If you're using xl2k or below, hit ctrl-z as soon as excel converts it to
> > a
> > hyperlink.
> >
> > Or start your entry with an apostrophe:
> >
> > 'www.microsoft.com
> >
> > keithb wrote:
> >>
> >> Is there some way of formatting cells that prevents cell content from
> >> being
> >> interpreted as a hyperlink?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Keith
> >
> > --
> >
> > Dave Peterson

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Dave Peterson