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How to prevent hyperlinks from changing color in Excel?

Author Xiaoyang Last modified

Normally, when we click the hyperlink in a worksheet, the blue color hyperlink will be changed to purple as following screenshots shown. But sometimes, we just want to keep hyperlink are blue color whenever we click it or not. How could we prevent hyperlink from changing color after we click it?

a screenshot of original hyperlink -2 a screenshot of hyperlink color after cliking

Prevent hyperlinks from changing color in Excel

Prevent hyperlinks from changing color in Excel

To keep the hyperlink without changing color after clicking it, please do as these:

1. Go to click Page Layout tab in the ribbon, and then click Colors > Create New Theme Colors, see screenshot:

a screenshot of creating new theme colors

2. And in the Create New Theme Colors dialog, in the Theme colors section, click the drop down list beside the Followed Hyperlink option, and choose the blue color of the original hyperlink color. See screenshot:

a screenshot of specifying a followed hyperlink color

3. At last, click Save button to save this setting. When you click the hyperlink next time, the color of it will not be changed.

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