I had a search in the archives for this and came out blank so here goes…
I have a Word 2000 document with a load of e-mail addresses in it. They are like larry @home.com whereas I want them to come out like larry@home.com, ie so I can click on them and my outlook will pop up a mail to them.
Hoping someone can help me out.
Thanks.
PS Bonus points for anyone who can tell me how type in an e-mail address here at the SDMB without the VB coding appearing automatically 
From Help:
“Turn on or off automatic formatting of hyperlinks”
On the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect, and then click the AutoFormat As You Type tab.
Under Replace as you type, select or clear the Internet and network paths with hyperlinks check box.
Ah, you mean you already have a document created? Hmmm. I think you might have to do them all manually. Not sure.
Right click on the link and there should be an option that says something like “disable hypertext formatting.” Click on that.
Then highlight the text and change it to black and take away the underlining. If the rest of you document is black text and has no underlining, you can accomplish the color change/underline removal by hitting control-A and then making all the text black and removing all underlining.
As for the SDMB, I think you just preview your respons and un-check the first box to remove the hypertext formatting from anyting you may have typed in.
Don’t know an automatic way, but if you don’t have too many, and you’re lucky enough they’re all in the same column, one under the other (I assume they are), then just go to the first, press <F2> (to edit it), and <Enter> to save and go to the next. Repeat a bunch.
Even a few hundred shouldn’t take more than a couple minutes, probably less than it took to enter this post.
Just because I have way too much spare time on my hands, I tried that out and did 260 in one minute. So, even a thousand shouldn’t be too bad if you can put up with 5 minutes of monotony.
Oh duh. you said “Word”; I thought it was Excel. Is it formatted nice enough that you can import it into Excel? Say comma delineated?
If you want to change the whole load at once, from the top menu:
choose Tools|Autocorrect|Autoformat
check the “Internet and Network Paths…” box
choose Format|Autoformat
Thanks folks, that was quick!
**db4530 **
I think you got me wrong - I want to put in the hyperlinks, not take them out.
I’ve tried that but no joy.
When I tried autoformat I got “{Hyperlink mailto: mail address}” in the document. So I think that bit is right but there must be something else screwy in the settings.
Tools|Options|View
Clear the “Field Codes” box.
Brilliant. 
Thanks very much TWduke and gang!
Much appreciated.