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How Do I Prevent Dropbox Paper from Converting Plain Text URLs into Hyperlinks?
Hi Everyone:
I was using a different file hosting service. However, I experienced recurring issues and decided to try Dropbox.
That service also has document-editing functionality which a...
- Hey tamarawill24, thanks for your post about Dropbox Paper!
At the moment, with the way Paper works, the URLs will appear as hyperlinks with previews of the linked site.
However, you're welcome to post an idea about this on our Paper idea board, for other users to upvote.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey tamarawill24, thanks for your post about Dropbox Paper!
At the moment, with the way Paper works, the URLs will appear as hyperlinks with previews of the linked site.
However, you're welcome to post an idea about this on our Paper idea board, for other users to upvote.
Let me know if you have any questions.
At the moment, with the way Paper works, the URLs will appear as hyperlinks with previews of the linked site.
However, you're welcome to post an idea about this on our Paper idea board, for other users to upvote.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Hi Hannah:
Thank you for your quick response and for the clarification that Dropbox automatically converts all text links to hyperlinks with previews of the linked site.
I prefer to keep the text only (non-clickable) links or URLs so this means that Dropbox's document editing feature is not the right fit for me. Hence, I will continue to search for another document editing service that suits my needs. However, I can continue to use the Dropbox's storage service.
Thanks for your suggestion to post or promote my idea in Paper idea board. I will do so soon.
Best Regards
- HannahI understand, Tamara, and thanks for getting back to me.
If you ever need anything else, make sure to give us a shout.
Have a wonderful day!Hi, please change this functionality, no user wants their URL to automatically convert into a preview, if they wanted that, you could give them the option to expand in to a preview. At the very least give users the option NOT to have their URLs render as previews. This is terrible UI and a time waster when users have to figure out hacks to make URLs not render as previews. Please change.
I also find this very annoying, and don't want my collaborators to have to learn to use ``` backticks just to stop urls from turning into link previews. For now I will have to go back to a shared Google Doc.
