Remove The Underline From Links In Word
There are two ways to insert a hyperlink in your Microsoft Word document. The first way involves typing out the text of the link and then inserting the link. For example, you might want the text of the link to say Word Templates and you might want the link to lead to a web page about Word Templates. The other method involves simply inserting the URL of the web page itself. You can insert the URL either by typing it out yourself, or by pasting it in to your document, having first copied it from the address bar of your browser.
Either way, a hyperlink in a Microsoft Word document appears as blue, underlined text, by default, like this:
However, if you don’t want blue text, or just want to remove the underline from your links, Word allows you to do so.
Change The Hyperlink Style
To remove the underline from links in your Word document, and/or change their colour, you need to modify the style of hyperlinks.
Click on the dialog box launcher to the bottom right of the Styles group (Home tab). See the image below to find out where that is.
Hyperlink will only appear in the list if there is a hyperlink in the document. To change its style, right click on it and select Modify.
When the Modify Style window opens, you can make your changes to the hyperlink style. In the image below, you can see that the default underline has been removed, the hyperlink text has been bolded and the colour has been changed to orange. Nice. You’ll see a preview of what the changed text will look like in the centre of the panel.
The changes you make here will affect all hyperlinks in your document: existing ones, and ones that you are yet to insert. Note that these changes will only affect the current document. If you want to affect hyperlink styling in all documents you create in the future, you should amend normal.dotm.
