Weird Hyperlink Behavior

Thank you very much, it's been very useful!

Thank you so much for this, I was starting to panic but you made it so easy and clear to fix! Again thank you for sharing <3

Allen Wyatt

My goodness, I wish I'd found this website 4 months ago during my studies. Finally, I was frustrated enough to Google it and your site came up first in my search.

THANK YOU....I was able to fix the hyperlink issue and am no longer ready to pull out my hair.

Thank you for such a succinct, easy-to-follow, and valuable piece of information.

All the best
M. Akbar

My issue wasn't in Word. Rather, in Outlook. The fix is to just open a new email, and within the email window hit ALT+F9 to re-enable field code formatting

Thank you for posting this! Seeing the field code was and not knowing how to get it to show up normally was driving me nuts! Your fix worked perfectly.

Brilliant! The Word Options solution worked for me. Thank you! C :-)

Hoorah! It worked! Thank you!

Thank you! This was driving me mad seeing all my hyperlinks as field code.

Hi Allen,
These instructions don't work for me. The options box is not available (can't find it anywhere). Is that because I am using Word for Mac 2019? My keyboard on my Macbook Pro has no F9 key either.
Thanks, K

SO helpful, thank you!!!

thank you for your solution .
It work correctly for my problem
Thanks and good luck

This was hugely useful for me. I was going crazy as my outbound client documents had the HYPERLINK format. Other easily available Q&A websites told me to change FILE / OPTIONS / DISPLAY / UNCHECK HIDDEN TEXT.

This solution here worked for me. FILE / OPTIONS / ADVANCED / DOCUMENT CONTENT / UNCHECK FIELD CODES.

This was a life saver as I was frozen with the incorrect looking documents until I found this solution page.

Hyperlinks -- I set hyperlinks to headings in a glossary section of my Word document. When I add new items (new headings) to the glossary, my hyperlinks start pointing to the wrong items. Is there a way to make Word not change the heading to which it points. If I entered all my new items/headings to the bottom of the glossary, it would work fine. But I want them in alphabetic order.

Thank you very much for these very useful tips

thank you very much, fantastic!

Thank you for this! My cat walked across my keyboard and I couldn't figure out how to undo whatever magic she pulled. This article was quick and concise and helped me fix the problem!

Thanks a lot !

Your Tip for the weird behaviour made me save valuable time today. This tip was very much useful and is written in a simple manner without any jargon.

Please keep up the good work.

Thanks once again.

Have a good wek-end!

Thank you. I had to unchecked the box to see the link. It worked.

it worked, Thank you very much

Hi Allen
Much gratitude for your "Weird Hyperlink Behavior" - solved the issue for me ❤ Thank you!

Thank you so very much. I forgot I enabled the shift F9 when I was completing mail merge. It did work.

Thank you, this was so helpful! Instantly fixed the issue I've been having.

Thank you so much for this article. I just started a new job and this was the default behavior and it was driving me nuts.

Thanks for all the great info about how to use Word efficiently!

I'm encountering an issue with hyperlinks. Yesterday I could copy and past a hyperlink, and it would be blue and underlined. Today, I get this:

{ HYPERLINK "https://www.google.com/..." }

The Shift+F9 solution above does make it the blue, underlined link (thank you!!!), but how do I revert it to pasting like that automatically?

I tried unchecking the AutoFormat As You Type box "Internet and network paths with hyperlinks" box, to no avail.

Any ideas?
Thanks!