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How to change the color or remove the underline from hyperlinks in Word?

Author: Tech Support Last Modified: 2014-02-12

When you insert hyperlinks in Word, the default hyperlink color is blue. And if you want to change the hyperlink color or remove the underlines of the hyperlinks, you can do as following steps:

Change the color of the hyperlinks in Word

Remove the underlines from hyperlinks in Word

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2. Click the small icon under Change Styles to open Styles window.

3. Click the Hyperlink drop down menu > Modify…

Note: this option will only appear if your document contains hyperlink.

4. In the Modify window, click on the blue color (default color) and choose your preferred color from the dropdown menu.

5. Click OK to apply the change.


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1. Click Home tab, and go to click the Styles launcher button to display the Styles pane. See screenshot:

2. In the Styles pane, click on the drop-down icon or right click on Hyperlink, and then click Modify from the Hyperlink drop-down menu. See screenshot:

3. In the Modify Style dialog, click the Underline button then click OK to close the dialog. See screenshot:

4. Then close the Styles pane if you do not need it any more. You can see the result as shown as below:


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Hi, thank you for the really helpful guide. Is there any way to have a number of different coloured hyperlinks within the same doc?
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Thanks a lot
you always help me in word
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I didn't have "hyperlinks" show up in the Styles window.

I had tried several sites to figure this out. I had just added some bookmarks and links to those bookmarks in a document we use at home. I did the steps as this blog and several others said, but it wasn't showing me all the Styles. It turns out when I hit "Options" in the bottom right, it popped up a Style Pane Options window. In there, at the top under "Select Styles to show:" it had "recommended" selected. I chose "all styles" ("in use" or "in current document" both do NOT work for whatever reason), then "ok" and then I could do as your article stated. It was odd to me the MS would not include that in recommended styles. After all, I've gone this far in to try and change something -- there's probably a good chance hyperlinks would be something I'd want to see.
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OK - took a while to figure out how to disable the FollowedHyperlinks - As stated you click on the little arrow at the top where Styles are. Then click on Options (bottom). From there you have to select which styles are displayed (default is suggested) - change this to all. Close options, and repeat above. Now you can right click on "FollowedHyperlink" - and change it's setting. Then go back into Options, and change "All" back to "suggested". Now both Hyperlinks and Followed Hyperlinks are good.
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REALLY HELPFUL!!!!!!!!!
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This one has been buggin me for awhile. This extra bit of info was the trick I needed. Thank you so much GG!!
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Big ups - this is crucial addition - thank you!
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Thank you! It would be great if this page is updated to include this as well.
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THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
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