writer hyperlinks driving me nuts

[whistler1]

I’m editing a document in writer. I paste an email address and it forces a mailto link.
Iturn off all autocorrect, cut a url and paste back as raw test - and it forces a hyperlink.
And when I click I cant remove or edit the hyperlink.

And there is no option to make a hyperlink to text where I do need one.

How can I turn off ALL AUTOCORRECT? If I make a mistake I’ll happily correct it myself, at present its like cr*p predictive text!

Version: 6.4.0.3 (x64)
Build ID: b0a288ab3d2d4774cb44b62f04d5d28733ac6df8
CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 18363; UI render: GL; VCL: win;
Locale: en-GB (en_GB); UI-Language: en-GB
Calc: CL

[ajlittoz]

Go to Tools>AutoCorrect>AutoCorrect Options, Options tab.

Uncheck the following boxes to disable auto-correction:

• Use replacement table for the “cr*p predictive text”
• URL recognition for hyperlinking mail addresses and web sites URL

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[whistler1]

Thanks AJ - its just not that simple - Sometimes I make a change and it changes the whole document to hyperlink!

However I’ve followed your suggestion and basically unticked EVERYTHING in autocorrect, closed it down, and now when I open again it seems to behave.

One of the problems is I use it to store passwords in a secure password protected document; and it was “correcting” passwords so they didnt work.
Why is there not just an option to turn autocorrect off?

[ajlittoz]

Please make this “answer” a comment to my answer since this is a follow-on discussion, not another solution to the problem. I can then comment.