Word hyperlinks turning white

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I have been inserting hyperlinks in to my documents for years. All of a
sudden this past month, when I am pasting text with a hyperlink included it
goes white. I've done all the other autoformat things but can't find how to
stop this from happening. I haven't upgraded my program either but I do have
a new computer and maybe my personal settings got reset.
 
Check the definitions of the character styles named Hyperlink and
FollowedHyperlink. By default they include Color:Blue and Color:Violet,
respectively. Probably one of them has accidentally been changed to white.

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Jay - that was exactly it. We have begun using new templates and what seems
to have happened is that the program default style changed itself to white.
I had to modify the style in all the corporate templates to reflect the fix.

Thanks so much for your help!
 
I am using word 2003 and building a page to access various links either
bookmarks within word or outside sources. I too have had the color of my
font change to red which I don't want it to do when I click on a link. I
could not follow any advice on here enough to understand where and how
exactly to correct this problem. If someone could give me clear cut
directions/advice, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
 
Hi JJ

A style controls the formatting of hyperlinks--that is, Word knows when
text is a hyperlink and by changing the hyperlink style, you can tell
Word to make all hyperlinks red or pink or whatever you like, in one
step. To change the style, see the instructions here:
http://shaunakelly.com/word/styles/ModifyAStyle.html

The relevant styles are Hyperlink and Followed Hyperlink--change them if
you don't like them. Just like a web page changes the color of links you
have followed, Word changes the styles of links you have clicked on to
Followed Hyperlink, but these two styles can be identical in appearance
if you prefer.
 
All of this is fine and dandy if your work hadn't got you 2007!!!!!!

Getting very frustrated now because I am typing reports with email addresses
and hyperlinks and I don't want them going blue and underlined!!!

Someone, help me please! How do I turn this off!?
 
If you are going to post into an old thread, then quote the relevnt parts of
the old thread or no-one will have a clue what you are talking about.
However what I think you want here is Office Button > Word Options >
Proofing > Autocorrect Options > Autoformat as you type > uncheck Internet
and network paths with hyperlinks (and most of the rest of the stuff in that
dialog that you won't need).

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Hello Lynsey

Lynsey wrote:
[..]
Getting very frustrated now because I am typing reports with email addresses
and hyperlinks and I don't want them going blue and underlined!!!
Click to expand...

see Graham's answer.

Another approach is to change the hyperlink (and visited hyperlink)
character style (automatic color instead of blue, not underlined). That
way, Word will still create hyperlinks for you, but they won't stand out
from the rest of the text (you can see that they're hyperlinks when you
hover over them with the mouse).

HTH
Robert
 
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