How to change the hyperlink color in Outlook?
In Outlook, hyperlinks are traditionally displayed as blue underlined text. If you wish to customize the color of these hyperlinks to better fit your email design or enhance readability, follow these simple steps. This guide will show you how to easily modify the color of hyperlink text in your Outlook emails.
Change hyperlink color in Outlook
Change hyperlink color in Outlook
1. Create a new email message by clicking New E-mail under the Home tab.
2. Compose your email. (Note: make sure that there are hyperlinks existing in your email body) See screenshot:
3. Click the Format Text tab, and then go to Style group, and click the button under Change Styles. See screenshot:
4. Then a Styles dialog pops up. In this dialog, please put your cursor on the Hyperlink field to show the drop-down button.
5. Then click the drop-down button , and select Modify from the drop-down menu.
6. In the Modify Style dialog, you can do as follows:
A: If you don’t want to show an underline below the text, please click the button.
B: Choose your desired color in this color field.
C: If you just want to change the hyperlink color in the current document, please keep the Only in this document box checked; And if you want to apply these changes to the new emails you will compose next time, please check the New document based on this template box. See screenshot:
7. After configuring all the settings, please click OK to close the dialog. The color of the hyperlink texts has been changed to your wanted color. See screenshot:
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