
Or, in Word 2007 or Word 2010, on the far right of the Home tab, click Replace. Or, in Word 2003 or earlier, do Edit > Replace. You can fix this problem, and have hyperlinks display as you have defined the Hyperlink style. One-time fix: Find and replace the Hyperlink style To see the Navigation Pane, on the View tab, tick the Navigation Pane box. If Word formatted the hyperlink automatically, it won't have a pink underline.įigure 1: In Word 2010, click the little arrow in the Navigation Pane and select Replace. If you happen to apply the Hyperlink style yourself, the hyperlink will have a pink underline. So, it's very easy to end up with a document that's a mess. Word displays the hyperlink's underline in the same colour as its text. But Word ignores the Hyperlink's definitions of: It gets the font style correct (italic, bold, shadowed, small caps and so on). It gets the type of underline right (dotted, dashed, thick, thin). When you create a hyperlink, Word kind of half applies the Hyperlink style. It will have green text, but the underline that should be pink will be green. If you apply that style to some text in your document, Word will correctly format the text in green and give it a pink underline.īut… when Word automatically creates a hyperlink, or if you create a hyperlink using Insert > Hyperlink, Word does not properly apply the Hyperlink or FollowedHyperlink style. Let's say green text and a pink underline. If you modify the Hyperlink and/or FollowedHyperlink styles, you can set a different colour for the text and the underline. It only looks like Word is applying the Hyperlink and FollowedHyperlink styles because, out of the box, they have the same colour for text and underline. You could be forgiven for thinking that when you or Word create a hyperlink, Word automatically applies the Hyperlink or FollowedHyperlink character styles.

"FollowedHyperlink" is purple-ish violet. Word has built-in styles named "Hyperlink" and "FollowedHyperlink". What appears to happenīy default, when Word formats a hyperlink, the hyperlink appears blue with a blue underline, and a followed hyperlink appears in a purple-ish, violet colour, with purple-ish violet underline. You'd think that Word would format the hyperlink in the same way in both cases. You can insert a Hyperlink field, either by typing it directly or by using Insert > Quick Parts > Field.

