Remove Hyperlinks in Excel

Remove Hyperlinks In Excel (Table of Contents)

• Remove Hyperlinks in Excel
• How to Remove Hyperlinks in Excel?

Introduction to Remove Hyperlinks in Excel

To Remove Hyperlinks in excel, first, select the cell/s from where we need to remove the hyperlinks, then select the Remove Hyperlinks option from the right-click menu list. We can also disable the formation of hyperlinks from the File menu Options from the Proofing tab. In the AutoCorrect option, uncheck the “Internet and Network path with hyperlinks”. Once we do that, we will not get any hyperlinks further after adding any web link or link in the excel worksheet.

How to Remove Hyperlinks in Excel?

This Remove hyperlink is very simple easy to use. Let us now see how to Remove Hyperlinks in Excel with the help of some examples.

Example #1 – Remove hyperlinks by using mouse shortcut

Let’s suppose we have given some email ids and URL:

We will follow the below steps for removing these hyperlinks:

• Select the cell or all the cells which contain hyperlinks and Right-click on the cursor. It will open a drop-down list, as shown in the below screenshot. Click on Remove Hyperlinks.

• It will remove all the hyperlinks in one go.

Example 2 – Remove hyperlinks by using Ribbon

We have given some email’s and URL.

• Select the cells containing hyperlinks or press CTRL+A for selecting the whole worksheet.

• Go to the HOME tab and click on the Clear option under the Editing section. A drop-down list will open, as shown in the below screenshot.

• As we can see, here two options are available in the drop-down list:

1. Clear Hyperlinks.
2. Remove Hyperlinks

•  If we click on “Clear Hyperlinks”, then a pink eraser icon will appear on a screen in the extreme upper left corner, as shown in the below screenshot.

• As it is clicked on this pink icon, it will ask for two options:

1. Clear hyperlinks only.
2. Clear hyperlinks and formats.

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• Choose the option as per your requirement. Here I selected Clear Hyperlinks and Formats.

• By Clicking on Clear Hyperlinks and formats, it removes hyperlinks, as shown in the below Screenshot.

• If we click on “Remove Hyperlinks”, as shown in the below screenshot, it will directly remove all hyperlinks that exist on the excel worksheet.

• By Clicking on Remove Hyperlinks, it removes all the links as shown in the below screenshots.

Example #3 – Remove Hyperlinks by Excel setting

Whenever we enter any URL/ email id in Excel, it automatically converts that to hyperlinks due to its pre-existing setting. We can change this setting by following below steps:

• Go to the FILE tab and Click on the Options button in the left pane. It will open an Excel Options dialog box.

• Click on Proofing in the left pane.

• It will show you some options on the right side box. Click on the AutoCorrect Options button.

• It will open a dialog box, as shown in the below screenshot.

• Click on ‘ AutoFormat As You Type ‘ tab. It will show you some options as shown below:

• Uncheck the option “Internet and network paths with hyperlinks” and click on OK.

• Exit from the Excel Options dialog box by clicking on OK.
• Now, if you enter any URL or email id in an excel sheet, it won’t take it as a hyperlink.

Things to Remember

• As in the above article, we discussed three options to remove hyperlinks in excel; hence we should think before opting for the option.
• Like do we want to remove the formatting also with hyperlinks or only hyperlinks?
• The easiest option is the Mouse shortcut. It saves a lot of time and efforts.

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