Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Excel in Office 365. If you are using an earlier version (Excel 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Excel, click here: Removing Hyperlinks without a Macro, Take Two.

Removing Hyperlinks without a Macro, Take Two

by Allen Wyatt
(last updated August 31, 2020)

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Other issues of ExcelTips have featured macros that remove all the hyperlinks in a worksheet. If you have too few hyperlinks to justify the use of a macro (or you just don't like to deal with macros), you may be interested in an easy way to delete hyperlinks without using macros:

  1. Use the arrow keys to select the cell containing the first hyperlink.
  2. Press Ctrl+K. Excel displays the Edit Hyperlink dialog box. (See Figure 1.)

    3. Figure 1. The Edit Hyperlink dialog box.

  3. Click Remove Link. The dialog box disappears and the hyperlink is removed.
  4. Use the arrow keys to select the cell with the next hyperlink.
  5. Press F4. The hyperlink disappears.
  6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 to remove any other hyperlinks you want removed.

ExcelTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Excel training. This tip (10424) applies to Microsoft Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Excel in Office 365. You can find a version of this tip for the older menu interface of Excel here: Removing Hyperlinks without a Macro, Take Two.

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What is eight more than 0?

2020-09-01 10:19:45

J. Woolley

If you have several hyperlinks to remove, select a range that includes all of those hyperlinks, right-click within that selection, and pick Remove Hyperlinks.

2020-08-31 14:25:19

Allan

If you have just one hyperlink to remove>Rt clk hyperlink>Remove hyperlink

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