InDesign :: Hyperlinks

[PandaBear]

Hey guys,
I added an email hyperlink to an email address in some text of my InDesign document. I PDF'd it and when I tested it, it brought up a new email with the address in the "TO" line but it also opened up a browser that said "file not found".

Any ideas?

Another head-scratcher...I tried to take it out by deleting the hyperlink but the interactivity didn't seem to go away. In the Hyperlinks menu, nothing shows up. I tried re-typing but it seems as if that particular sequence of text is "tagged" somehow so whether I type it in that document or a new one, it makes it an active hyperlink.

How do I get rid of it for good so its regular text again?

[D-Frag]

ummmm, highlite it, change the color and delete the underline?? dont know, never had to deal with hyperlinks but I remember when I pasted word documents into ID that had web addresses it would make it a hyperlink and I would just change the color and delete the underline, seemed to do the trick.

[PandaBear]

Yea, it's just plain text (an email address). There's no underline or any style difference from when it was a hyperlink.
It's driving me nuts not knowing how to make it regular text again, with no functionality in a PDF.

[PandaBear]

UPDATE: I figured out that whenever I type in ANY email address, it automatically becomes an active link in my PDFs. I dont' even need to set up a hyperlink.
Is there any way to turn off this automatic hyperlinking of email addresses?

[PandaBear]

ANOTHER UPDATE:
Turns out it was my Acrobat 8 creating links automatically from the URLs & email addresses it picked up in the document.
I turned of "Check for URLs" in the Preferences > General section (in Acrobat) and the hyperlinks (which I did not tag in InDesign) seemed to deactivate and it was regular text again.

PHEWF!!

[urstwile]

Good to know, thanks for following up. :)