Our guide below will show you how to remove a hyperlink from an email message, while leaving behind the anchor text. This means that the previously linked text will no longer be clickable, but will instead display as normal text, like the rest of the words around it.
Delete a Link in a Message in Outlook 2013
The steps in this article will assume that there is a clickable hyperlink in an email message that you are typing in Outlook 2013, and that you want to remove that link. Step 1: Open the email message containing the hyperlink that you want to remove.
Step 2: Right-click the hyperlink in the email, then click the Remove Hyperlink option.
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