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Whenever I click on anything that has a @ symbol in browser, Word, Excel, or anywhere else, Windows launches Mail app. I do not want it to launch anything. I uninstalled the Mail app, so now Windows launches a table asking me which program to use to open that link. I do not want to use any program, I just want Windows to ignore me clicking on email addresses. How do I do that?
This isn't just on Word, but on dozens of other applications. And in most cases, I do need them as hyperlinks. I just don't need them to be opened on this particular PC. – Justinas Rubinovas – 2019-12-06T20:18:55.033
Each application may have its options - this isn't a Windows settings. Office apps have it in Options > Proofing, but you need to do them one by one. A global possibility is that you might possibly have installed a utility that does it, which you can test by booting into Safe mode to disable it. – harrymc – 2019-12-06T20:23:30.740
In any case, you need Ctrl+Click to follow a link, just a click shouldn't be enough. – harrymc – 2019-12-06T20:27:24.347
Sir, I believe you misunderstand. Each application has options to turn the words with "@" symbol into hyperlinks or not, but clicking on such links is a Windows "mailto" protocol, which I want to disable. This behavior isn't application-dependent. – Justinas Rubinovas – 2019-12-06T20:27:33.730
This will only be automatic in the browser. A simple click shouldn't be enough in desktop apps. – harrymc – 2019-12-06T20:29:44.203
1Well, but it is. In Excel, for example, a simple click is enough to launch Mail app. – Justinas Rubinovas – 2019-12-06T20:36:16.943
Verified: Does not happen in Word, but does happen in Excel. I added in my answer a link to a useful post, but this requires some discipline when working in Excel. – harrymc – 2019-12-06T20:50:22.983
I checked out that link, but what these people are suggesting are workarounds, not a solution. I need a solution. Keep the hyperlinks, but make the program ignore them when clicked. Just like it's handled in Word. – Justinas Rubinovas – 2019-12-07T07:43:11.323
So would many other people, but Microsoft doesn't listen. Microsoft itself suggests only the methods of the right-click or the long click.
– harrymc – 2019-12-07T09:26:20.747