# Turning off Automatic URL Recognition

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AutoCorrect function; URL recognition
recognizing URLs automatically
automatic hyperlink formatting
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predictive text, see also AutoCorrect function/AutoFill function/AutoInput function/word completion/text completion
Turning off Automatic URL Recognition
When you enter text, $[officename] automatically recognizes a word that may be a URL and replaces the word with a hyperlink. $[officename] formats the hyperlink with direct font attributes (color and underline) the properties of which are obtained from certain Character Styles.
If you do not want $[officename] to automatically recognize URLs as you are typing, there are several ways of turning off this feature.
Undo URL Recognition
- When you are typing and notice that a text has just been automatically converted into a hyperlink, press Command Ctrl+Z to undo this formatting.
- If you do not notice this conversion until later, select the hyperlink, open the context menu and choose Remove Hyperlink.
Turn off URL Recognition
- Load a document of the type for which you want to modify the URL recognition.
  If you want to modify the URL recognition for text documents, open a text document.
- Choose Tools - AutoCorrect Options.
- In the AutoCorrect dialog, select the Options tab.
- If you unmark URL Recognition, words will no longer be automatically replaced with hyperlinks.
  In $[officename] Writer there are two check boxes in front of URL Recognition. The box in the first column is for later post-editing and the box in the second column is for AutoCorrect as you type.