Mailto or URL links in spreadsheet no longer work

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Out of the blue, my brother says mailto links and urls no longer work
from within an Excel spreadsheet. i.e. click on the email address & it
should open the mail client. He gets an error message related to
security saying go to the administrator. I guess this is a security
problem from XP, but I am clueless as to how he can fix it.

Thanks
Greg

If you can remember the 60's....you weren't really there

[David McRitchie]

You can turn off automatic generation of hyperlinks on or off in Excel 2002
and up under Tools, Autocorrect Options...,

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"[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> Out of the blue, my brother says mailto links and urls no longer work
> from within an Excel spreadsheet. i.e. click on the email address & it
> should open the mail client. He gets an error message related to
> security saying go to the administrator. I guess this is a security
> problem from XP, but I am clueless as to how he can fix it.
>
> Thanks
> Greg
>
> If you can remember the 60's....you weren't really there