You may have noticed that when you are creating a document
in Microsoft Word any web address that you type is automatically turned into
a hyperlink. That is, the text turns blue and is underlined, and you can
click on it to open up a web browser window to display the web page at that
address. Which is fine if your document is on your computer screen. But,
what if your document is intended to be printed as a hardcopy document? In
that case, maybe you don't want the web address to be blue and underlined.
You can remove the hyperlink and turn the web address back
to ordinary text by selecting the hyperlink and pressing Control-K. Then, in
the resulting dialog box, just click "Remove Link."
You can also change Word's default behavior so that it
doesn't turn web addresses into hyperlinks in the first place. To do this,
pull down the Tools menu and select the "Autocorrect" option. Then, in the
Autocorrect dialog box pick the "AutoFormat As You Type" tab. Under the
heading "Replace as you type" uncheck the box next to "Internet and network
paths with hyperlinks." Click OK and Word will no longer automatically turn
web addresses into hyperlinks.
