

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.By default, when you type something in a Word document that smells like a web address or an email address, Word automatically turns it into a hyperlink.If you create a hyperlink using Insert > Hyperlink, Word creates a hyperlink.Word has three features where this happens: Word formats hyperlinks automatically.You apply the Hyperlink or FollowedHyperlink style to some text.There are two ways to format a hyperlink in a Word document: Compare the chart in Figure 5 with the the partially visible chart in Figure 4, above.Hyperlinks: different colours for text and underline in Microsoft Word In Figure 5 you can see our sample chart after we changed the Color set and Font set. We selected the color set TrebuchetsMs (highlighted in blue within Figure 3).

As you can see in Figure 4, the highlighted color set is Office (highlighted in red), and also, you can see many other color sets such as Calibri, Arial, Corbel, etc.Ĭlick on the Theme Font set that you want to apply.

This opens the Colors sub-gallery that you can see in Figure 3. Select the Colors option, as shown in Figure 3. Open or create a new presentation, and navigate to the Variants drop-down gallery, as explained earlier on this page.Hyperlinked text are also not displayed in the Colors sub-gallery that you can see inįollow these steps to choose a set of Theme Colors: In addition, the last two colors representing the colors of The first two background/text colors are normallyīlack and white, and they are not displayed. Remember: Although the Colors sub-gallery only displays 8 colors, beĪssured that each Theme Color set in fact has 12 colors.
