How do I turn off auto hyperlinks?

Turn off automatic formatting for links

If you don’t want to automatically format links as clickable text, you can turn off automatic formatting.

1. Choose Edit > Substitutions > Show Substitutions (from the Edit menu at the top of your computer screen).
2. In the Substitutions window, deselect the Smart Links checkbox.
3. Click a button to replace all occurrences of formatted links in a presentation, or just in the selected text.

When Smart Links is turned on for the presentation, a checkmark appears next to Smart Links in the Substitutions menu. You can deselect Smart Links to turn it off, but existing links won’t change unless you select the text that contains the links, then follow the steps above.

Custom shortcuts are handy & many folks don't notice them.

Send Apple some feedback - I hear they are working on the iWork apps, perhaps a poke will get them to do the right thing 🙂

http://apple.com/feedback

You may consider adding a keyboard shortcut for Keynote to remove the link.

cmd+k is add link, remove link has no shortcut, so perhaps set it to cmd+alt+k ?

System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts tab. Click the + & set it up for Keynote, use the menu item text 'Remove Link'

I know it is not a great solution, but sometimes getting rid of some of the mousing around can help.

I don't see an option.

A workaround is to type your text into TextEdit and then paste it into Keynote. It doesn't automatically create links with your Internet addresses when you paste it.

Text hyperlinks can not be permanently turned off in Keynote

The work around is to type the URL then double click the text and select remove