Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated March 16, 2021)
This tip applies to Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
Looking for a quick, easy way to remove hyperlinks without a macro? Believe it or not, you can accomplish this by using the Paste Special features of Excel. Follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Paste Special dialog box.
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2017-06-13 12:13:51
M-Michael
Worked for me in Excel 2010. Thanks
2017-04-05 12:20:23
Ken
This solution does not work. The hyperlinks remain.
2017-02-06 05:33:45
Barry
@P Mitchell
Prefix typing your new entries with an apostrophe ( ' ) which will explicitly tell Excel to treat that entry as text.
I don't why but Excel is still parsing your input and will add hyperlinks to email addresses and website addresses, even though the cells are formatted as "Text". Other numeric input (numbers, dates, times, etc.) are not parsed and just treated as text as you'd expect.
2017-02-06 01:47:22
P Mitchell
I am a subscriber.
I have a 70+ club membership in 2000. Any time I add or modify an email address, it is changed to a hyperlink, even though the column is formatted as "text". If I am not careful it starts a browser and tries to connect...@#%&*.
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