How to remove the underline from a hyperlink in Microsoft Word

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When you insert a hyperlink in a Microsoft Word document, is formatted with an underline by default. You can easily erase the underline from hyperlinked text to keep the overall style of your document consistent. This is how you do it.

Remove the underline from a single hyperlink

You can remove the underline from a single hyperlink without reflecting that style across all hyperlinks in the document.

Open the Word document that contains the underlined hyperlink. Highlight hyperlinked text by clicking and dragging over text, then right click on the text to display the context menu. In the context menu, click on “Fountain”.

Font option in context menu

The window will appear “Fountain”. In the tab “Fountain”, haga clic en la flecha hacia abajo debajo de la opciónEstilo de subrayado”. Click on “None” in the drop-down menu, después seleccione el botón “To accept”.

Remove underline style option in font window

Underline is now removed from selected hyperlinked text.

Example of hyperlinked text without underline

Remove the underline from all hyperlinks

If your Microsoft Word document contains multiple hyperlinks, you can erase the underline from all of them at the same time.

Open the Word document that contains the underlined hyperlinks. In the tab “Beginning”, haga clic en el icono del iniciador del cuadro de diálogo en la esquina inferior derecha del grupo “styles”.

The window will appear “styles”. Desplácese hasta la parte inferior y coloque el cursor sobre la opción “Hyperlink”. Click on the down arrow that appears.

Down arrow in styles menu

Another menu will appear. Click on “Modify”.

Modify option

Ahora estará en la ventana “Modify style”, which is where you can format the style of the hyperlinked text. Click the Underline icon to deselect.

You can also choose to reflect this style only in the document you are working on at the moment or in future documents.. At the same time, puede agregar el nuevo estilo a la galería “styles” para un acceso rápido.

Click OK.”

Modify style information

Underline is now removed from all hyperlinked text in document.

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