Hyperlinks Showing - Office 2007 & Office 2013

With the various updates that are coming out for Office 2007 and the new Office 2013 / Office 365 some features and settings may be changed by default.  There are just too many to layout in this blog post but your friendly neighborhood IT department wants to break down one setting........hyperlinks.  You may have installed Office 2013 but when you type a hyperlink, like www.bing.com in Word or Outlook it displays as this {HYPERLINK http://www.bing.com/}>.  This is a result of a "field code" setting that Office has on by default.  To get that fixed open Word 2013 and click the following:

1. Click on File
2. Click on Options
3. In the new window that pops up click Advanced on the left hand side
4. On the right hand side of that screen scroll down to where it says "Show field codes instead of their values."
5. Make sure that check box is unchecked
6. Once it is unchecked click the Ok box, close out of the pop up window, and that's it.

For a complete rundown and more info on this setting, you can click the following link........here.