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How to prevent/disable automatic hyperlinks in Excel?

May 11, 2016 Please right-click the hyperlink object, click Edit Hyperlink to confirm if the hyperlink address is correct. Directly access this Address to have a try. Additionally, please send this Excel file to another user, and confirm if that user can open the Hyperlinks in this file to narrow down if the issue is only occurs on your computer.

As we all known, Excel create clickable hyperlinks automatically when we input the web addresses into cells. Maybe, sometimes, this is somewhat annoying. Today, I will introduce some quick tricks for you to prevent automatic hyperlinks in Excel.

  1. Frustrating that you can paste a hyperlink into a cell as part of a record and the hyperlink won't work. I fixed it manually with these steps: Right-mouse click on cell with non-working hyperlink. Copy the URL in 'Text to display'. Paste the URL into the blank 'Address'. Click the 'OK' button.
  2. In the Excel Options dialog box, click Proofing from the left pane, and click AutoCorrect Options in the right section. See screenshot: 3. And then in the AutoCorrect dialog, click AutoFormat As You Type tab, and uncheck I nternet and network paths with hyperlinks option under Replace as you type section, see screenshot: 4.

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Prevent automatic hyperlinks with Autocorrect Options in Excel

The build-in Autocorrect Options in Excel can help you to disable the automatic hyperlinks when you enter the web address. Do as this:

1. In Excel 2010/2013, click File > Options and in Excel 2007, click Office button > Excel Options to open the Excel Options dialog.

2. In the Excel Options dialog box, click Proofing from the left pane, and click AutoCorrect Options in the right section. See screenshot:

3. And then in the AutoCorrect dialog, click AutoFormat As You Type tab, and uncheck Internet and network paths with hyperlinks option under Replace as you type section, see screenshot:

4. After finishing the settings, click OK > OK to close the dialogs.

5. And now when you enter your web address into a cell, the internet address will not become clickable hyperlink. See screenshot:

Note: After disabling this feature, all the web addresses in the worksheet will not be converted to the clickable hyperlinks any more.

Prevent automatic hyperlinks with shortcut keys in Excel

But sometimes, you need to leave the hyperlink feature on and just need to prevent some specific hyperlinks, you can use the following shortcut keys to undo the hyperlink immediately after it's created.

1. Type your web address and press Enter key.

2. Then press Ctrl+Z immediately. And the clickable hyperlink has been converted to the plain text.

Convert plaint text to hyperlink with Kutools for Excel

In sometimes, you have a list of texts which want to convert to linkable hyperlinks, in Excel, there is no quick way can help you, however, with Kutools for Excel’s Convert Hyperlinks utility to quickly convert plain texts to linkable hyperlinks.

After free installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:

1. Select texts that you want to convert to clickable hyperlinks, and click Kutools > Link > Convert Hyperlinks. See screenshot:

2. Then in the popping dialog, check Cell contents replace hyperlinks addresses option, and then check Convert source range checkbox. See screenshot:

3. Click Ok. Now the plain texts are converted to linkable hyperlinks.

Tip: If you want to keep the plain texts after conversion, you can uncheck Convert source range in the Convert Hyperlink dialog, and select a cell to put out the converted results.

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    My AutoCorrect Options in Excel 2010 is grayed out and not clickable, smh...
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      Hello, if your autocorrect option is gray, maybe you have a mixed Microsoft Office version installed, you only need to copy the WINWORD.exe file from Office12 (or other number)folder to Office14 folder, and restart Word. Hope it helps.
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    thank you, I just intall win10 and need to change re-setup excel
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    Does changing this setting apply only to your session or is the option change saved to the spreadsheet itself. For example, I have a very large sheet used by multiple people, and we have data in it that Excel always wants to auto-convert to a hyperlink (not wanted). So if I change this option, am I doing it only for my self, or will this change apply to anyone (preferred option) that tries to edit this same spreadsheet?

Can a hyperlink work in a pivot table?

The hyperlinks don’t work in pivot table by default, but fortunately, you can create a VBA code to make the hyperlinks be clickable in pivot table.

How do you hyperlink in a pivot table?

Here are the steps:

  1. Select any cell in a pivot table.
  2. On the Ribbon, under PivotTable Tools, click the Options tab. NOTE: In Excel 2013, click the Analyze tab.
  3. In the PivotTable group, click the drop down arrow for Options.
  4. Click the Generate GetPivotData command, to turn the feature off or on.

How do I add a hyperlink in VBA?

Add Create Hyperlinks in Excel VBA:

  1. Open an excel workbook.
  2. Press Alt+F11 to open VBA Editor.
  3. Insert New Module.
  4. Copy the above code and Paste in the code window.
  5. Press F5 to execute it.
  6. You can see a new hyperlink is added at A5.

Do macros work with pivot tables?

Just click anywhere inside the table that contains your data, and then run your macro. AND, because your source data is in a table, just add new rows as needed to your data, hit Refresh on your PivotTable and the new information will automatically appear.

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How do I create a dynamic pivot table in VBA?

Use Dynamic Ranges in Pivot Tables

  1. Select a cell in the database.
  2. Choose Data | PivotTable and PivotChart Report.
  3. Select ‘Microsoft Excel List or Database’, click Next.
  4. For the range, type myData , then click Next.
  5. Click the Layout button.
  6. Drag field buttons to the row, column and data areas.
  7. Click OK, then click Finish.

How do I add a macro to a pivot table?

The Simple 8 Steps to Write a Macro Code in VBA to Create a Pivot Table in Excel

  1. ‘Declare Variables. Dim PSheet As Worksheet.
  2. ‘Declare Variables. On Error Resume Next.
  3. ‘Define Data Range.
  4. ‘Define Pivot Cache.
  5. ‘Insert Blank Pivot Table.
  6. ‘Insert Row Fields.
  7. ‘Insert Data Field.
  8. ‘Format Pivot.

How do I automate a pivot table?

Automate PivotTable Creation

  1. Select cell A1 (your heading) and select Insert → Pivot Table (pre-2007, Data → Pivot Table Report).
  2. Ensure that you have selected NewWorksheet as the placement for the Pivot table, and click OK.
  3. Now drag the First Name field to the Row labels area.

How do I change the pivot filter in VBA?

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In the workbook, to see the sheet code, right-click the FoodSales sheet tab, and click View Code. Change Related Filter — Download the Change Filters in Same Pivot Table sample file, which contains the pivot table and VBA code.

How do I refresh a pivot table in VBA?

Update Pivot Tables Automatically

  1. Open the Visual Basic Editor. You can do this by clicking the Visual Basic button on the Developer tab of the ribbon.
  2. Open the Sheet Module that contains your source data.
  3. Add a new event for worksheet changes.
  4. Add the VBA code to refresh all pivot tables.

Can pivot table refresh automatically?

At any time, you can click Refresh to update the data for the PivotTables in your workbook. By default, PivotTables are not refreshed automatically, but you can specify that the PivotTable is automatically refreshed when you open the workbook that contains the PivotTable. …

How do I automatically update data from one spreadsheet to another?

Type = in your cell, then click the other sheet and select the cell you want, and press enter. That’ll type the function for you. Now, if you change the data in the original B3 cell in the Names sheet, the data will update everywhere you’ve referenced that cell.

How do I refresh an Excel spreadsheet in VBA?

VBA RefreshAll Workbook Method- Instructions

  1. Open an Excel Workbook.
  2. Press Alt+F11 to Open VBA Editor.
  3. Insert a Module from Insert Menu.
  4. Copy the above code for activating a range and Paste in the code window(VBA Editor)
  5. Save the file as macro enabled workbook.

Does Refresh All Refresh all open workbooks?

New Member. You can put this in the “Workbook_BeforeClose” sub of the workbook you close, it will refresh all open workbooks when you close it.

Does Excel Auto refresh when closed?

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The Excel (Excel 2016) query automatic refresh does not refresh when the workbook is closed. It does when it is open. The Refresh Control under the connection Properties is set to Refresh every 2 minutes.