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Question about unwelcome new feature: Hyperlink to URL added step

Does anybody know how to, in Numbers 3.0, remove the (very unwelcome) added feature when you click on an active URL, asking if you want to edit it or open it? (Instead of assuming that you want to open it in a browser window, and doing so forthwith.)


To explain that in more detail:

  • How it used to work. One of the most valuable (to my company) features in the previous version of Numbers was the ability to use the HYPERLINK formula to create a column of URLs that could be clicked on in rapid succession, also using Command-Tab to switch between the browser and Numbers. That is, in Column A you would have a list of domain names, say, 100 of them that you needed to check. In Column B, you would use this formula to create 100 clickable hyperlinks: =HYPERLINK("http://www."&A)
  • Numbers didn't "stop to ask" if you wanted to open the URL: it assumed, that if you clicked on it, that you wanted to open it up in your browser window.
  • How it works now: You can use the same formula, but when you click, the extra step has been added of asking if you want to "edit" or "open".


I'm wondering if there's some way around this, to remove this extra step.

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Nov 10, 2013 3:29 PM

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Question about unwelcome new feature: Hyperlink to URL added step

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