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How to Change Color of Hyperlinks in Word 2019, 2016, or 2013

How to Change Color of Hyperlinks in Word 2019, 2016, or 2013

June 3, 2019 by Mitch Bartlett 15 Comments

If you don’t like the way hyperlinks look in your Microsoft Word 2019, 2016, or 2013 document, you can change the color of both visited or non-visited hyperlinks using these steps.

Microsoft Windows

Non-Visited Hyperlinks

To change the color of hyperlinks that have not been visited or clicked, follow these instructions:

  1. Add the hyperlink to your document.
  2. From the “Home” tab, click the small arrow icon in the lower-right corner of the “Styles” box. Alternately, you can use Alt+Ctrl+Shift+S .
  3. In the “Styles” menu, hover your mouse pointer over “Hyperlink“, and then click the triangle that appears to the right. From the drop-down menu that appears, select “Modify…“.
  4. In the “Formatting” section, choose the color you want to use, then click “OK“.

Visited Hyperlinks

To change the color of hyperlinks that have been visited or clicked, follow these instructions:

  1. From the “Home” tab, select the small arrow icon in the lower-right corner of the “Styles” box. Alternately, you can use Alt+Ctrl+Shift+S .
  2. Select the “Options…” link in the lower-right corner.
  3. In the “Select styles to show:” drop-down menu, select “All styles“, then select “OK“. You will now have an option for “FollowedHyperlink” in the “Styles” list.
  4. In the “Styles” menu, hover your mouse pointer over “FollowedHyperlink”, and then click the triangle that appears to the right. From the drop-down menu that appears, select “Modify…“.
  5. In the “Formatting” section, choose the color you want to use, then click “OK“.

macOS

  1. From the “Home” tab, select “Styles Pane“.
  2. At the bottom-left corner in the “List” box, select “All Styles“.
  3. Select “Hyperlink” in the “Apply a style” area.
  4. In the “Current Style” area, select “Hyperlink“, then choose “Modify Style“.
  5. Select the color you wish to use for hyperlinks.
  6. You can perform the same steps for “FollowedHyperlink” if desired.

You have successfully changed the color of hyperlinks in your Word document.

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Filed Under: Office Tagged With: Office 365, Word 2019

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Comments

  1. Cate says

    September 9, 2022 at 8:27 pm

    Thank you Thank you. You were the only one that got this working on my MAC! so good!

  2. doug says

    April 5, 2022 at 10:13 am

    Thanks, I needed this (Change HyperLink Color)

  3. Dana says

    November 9, 2021 at 5:26 pm

    Thank you. Oddly you were the only site I found that addressed how to access the visited link options. You saved me some grief..

  4. Lazzarus says

    January 19, 2021 at 7:13 am

    Thanks! Fixed my issue, but needed a little more exploring. Here’s what happened for anyone else with the issue.

    Problem:
    My hyperlink text was all white or transparent. ‘Hyperlink’ was not in the styles list and I could not add a new hyperlink style as one already existed apparently.

    Solution:
    By selecting ‘Style Inspector’ in the bottom left of the styles window and then clicking on a hyperlink in my document, I was able to see and modifty that style to change the font color.

  5. Mandy says

    October 18, 2020 at 11:12 pm

    Thanks. Seems half of the people commenting can’t follow instructions. LOL I didn’t know there was a followedhyperlink style – now I do. :D

    Awesome work.

  6. Scott says

    September 18, 2020 at 8:05 am

    Solid.

  7. Gunther says

    August 28, 2020 at 9:00 am

    Well done, Mitch. Thx. – Btw: works for Outlook 2019 as well!

  8. Sesh says

    August 19, 2020 at 12:42 pm

    Excellent writing skills. I appreciate your tech writers. I myself am a tech writer for cloud computing products. Wanted to know how to change link colors after they are clicked.

  9. C Bear says

    March 6, 2020 at 10:40 am

    I needed to know how to change style of visited links in my document. This worked — thank you!

  10. Carol Dixon says

    November 26, 2019 at 9:47 am

    This was great thanks. I had searched so many forums and it was only this one which worked for Word 16. Thank you.

  11. Mark says

    October 23, 2019 at 6:22 pm

    Would love to know if its possible to create two different hyperlinks styles in one Word document.

  12. WhoCares says

    September 24, 2019 at 1:18 pm

    There is NO “hyperlink” listed in the styles box. None.

  13. wjc says

    July 25, 2019 at 11:28 pm

    This is a very good tip. Works great in a word.doc. Do you know if there is a way to keep the visited state when you export to a pdf? Thank you!

  14. McKenzie says

    July 6, 2019 at 11:28 pm

    Thank you!!!

  15. Valerie says

    June 11, 2019 at 4:24 pm

    No idea where to go for this: You will now have an option for “FollowedHyperlink” in the “Styles” list.

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