Automatic URL/UNC/Email link formatting in Outlook

[bleachlpb]

Does anyone know how to disable the feature in Outlook/Office that automatically turns text that matches the format of a link into a blue underlined link?

For example, when typing an email to a coworker (using Outlook builtin email editor set to plain text), and I enter a UNC address (\\computername\c$\directory\directory), Outlook automatically underlines it and colors it blue. I want to turn that off. I think it is a useful feature - but extremely annoying when you don't want/need it. Especially when the link I am trying to communicate has a space in it (such as a directory with a space in the name), then it breaks off the special formatting at the space.

It does the same thing in Word and Excel (and PowerPoint presumably...) too, so I dunno if there is a global setting for it in Office and if there is I don't know where it is.

Thanks
BleachLPB

 

[dcompto]

I don't know of a way to turn off autoformatting of internet and network paths in Outlook, but I know that for addresses that include spaces, you need to enclose the address with angle brackets, i.e.,

<C:\My Documents\MyFile.doc>

You CAN turn off autoformatting of internet and network paths in Word by...

Format > AutoFormat > Options
AutoFormat tab
uncheck Internet and network paths with hyperlinks
AutoFormat As You Type tab
uncheck Internet and network paths with hyperlinks
OK
Close (be sure to click the "Close" button and not the "OK" button or you'll autoformat your document!)

 

[bleachlpb]

thanks! Maybe I'll just use word as the email editor and apply those settings in word. Most of the time I don't mind the autoformat but there are a few times when I don't want it.