If you’re like most people, you use Microsoft Excel to keep track of your work and personal finances. But if you’re like some people, you also use Excel to keep track of hyperlinks. Hyperlinks are the little arrows that point from one cell to another. If you want to remove all the hyperlinks from a worksheet, follow these steps:

  1. Open the worksheet in which you want to remove the hyperlinks.
  2. Select the cells that contain the hyperlinks.
  3. On the Home tab, in the Editing group, click Remove Hyperlink. (Or press Ctrl+H.)
  4. In the dialog box that appears, click OK. If you want to keep a few hyperlinks but remove most of them, follow these steps: 1. Select only those cells that contain hyperlinks (not any other cells). 2. On the Home tab, in the Editing group, click Remove Hyperlink (or press Ctrl+H). 3. In the dialog box that appears, click OK to remove all of the hyperlinks in those selected cells ..

Want to remove those clickable links from your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets? If so, it’s easy to remove those links or prevent Excel entirely from turning your typed text into web links. We’ll show you how to do both.

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To quickly remove an individual hyperlink from your Excel spreadsheet, use an option from your right-click menu.

To do that, first, open your spreadsheet with Excel. Find the cell that has the link you want to remove.

Right-click that cell, and from the menu that opens, select “Remove Hyperlink.”

And your selected hyperlink is now removed.

That’s it. You can remove hyperlinks from Word documents in a similar way.

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If you want to remove multiple hyperlinks from your Excel spreadsheet at once, you can again use the Excel context menu option.

To do so, first, open your spreadsheet with Excel.

In the spreadsheet, select the links you want to remove. You can select as many links as you want.

To remove links from your entire worksheet, press Ctrl+A (Windows) or Command+A (Mac) to select your entire worksheet.

While your hyperlinks are selected, right-click anywhere on your worksheet and choose “Remove Hyperlinks” from the menu.

And Excel will remove all your selected hyperlinks!

You’re all set. If you enter a lot of dates in Excel, you might like to know how to convert text to date values.

By default, when you type a web address in your spreadsheet, Excel automatically converts it to a hyperlink. To prevent this, you can toggle off an option in Excel settings.

To do so, in Excel’s top-left corner, click “File.”

From the left sidebar, select More > Options.

An “Excel Options” window will open. In this window, from the left sidebar, select “Proofing.” Then, on the right, click “AutoCorrect Options.”

You will see an “AutoCorrect” window. At the top of this window, click “AutoFormat As You Type.”

On the “AutoFormat As You Type” tab, in the “Replace As You Type” section, turn off the “Internet and Network Paths With Hyperlinks” option. Then click “OK.”

Close the “Excel Options” window by clicking “OK” at the bottom.

From now on, Excel won’t automatically convert your text into hyperlinks. Very useful in many cases!

Similarly, you can disable automatic hyperlinks in Microsoft Word, too.

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