Turn on or off automatic formatting of hyperlinks

Microsoft Word can format Web and e-mail addresses as hyperlinks (hyperlink: Colored and underlined text or a graphic that you click to go to a file, a location in a file, a Web page on the World Wide Web, or a Web page on an intranet. Hyperlinks can also go to newsgroups and to Gopher, Telnet, and FTP sites.) as you type, but you can turn off this feature if you want.

On the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect Options, and then click the AutoFormat As You Type tab.
Under Replace as you type, select or clear the Internet and network paths with hyperlinks check box.

Hope this helps Blah (FYI: Word 2003)

Aaaaaaaahhhhh, thank you. It's been driving me INSANE.

I wander in thinking we are having Bible study on God's word and it is Bill Gates' Word... oh well

Good old Bill.

It could have been "word," like "word up, y'all"

Hehe, I thought the same, but I was particularly intrigued that it was coming from Blah.

You are most welcome Blah - may your word no longer be possessed by the hyperlink ... hehe not sure why that seems amusing, but t then there you are :)

You have no idea how you have changed my life. Seriously. I was going mad constantly dehyperlinking....

So a 'live long and prosper' reference would likely be too much, eh?

I'm not sure it would fit into what I'm writing.

In the beginning was Word.

Although I think WordPerfect got there first.

Word to your mother.