TUAW Tip: How to disable automatic hyperlinks in Pages '08

I don't want the links to turn blue and get underlined but I still want them to work when exporting my document to PDF. Do the links work anymore after they have been disabled from the preferences as described in the article?

Currently I have links enabled and change the links' style to match the normal paragraph style after pasting them in. It requires some unnecessary effort but the links end up working.

Another way is to go into the inspector, then hyperlinks, then check "make all hyperlinks inactive"

This is not as good s your fix though

I have already discovered this but a lot of my Pages documents are IT related reference material and contain links.

As I want to keep some of the links, I uncheck the "Make all hyperlinks inactive" box in the inspector. When you type or past something in that you want to use as a hyperlink then highlight it and you can check the "Enable as a hyperlink" and "boom!" you have a link.

Very good fix. This was quite an annoying inconvenience, though for security purposes, it's probably best not to list a email address anyway. Some easy Javascripting can shield them from spam collection robots.

http://www.filterra.com

You should also uncheck the "Use smart quotes" box and learn how to type the “curly” typographers’ quotes directly (option-[, option-shift-[ and the same for single quotes using the close-bracket: ]). This auto feature is the reason for all the backwards apostrophes in ads, billboards, TV commercials, etc. It also makes it impossible to type feet and inches.