Principle of least surprise

[Piet van Oostrum]

"Joao S. O. Bueno" <gwidion at gmail.com> writes:

> Indeed - 
> I just created a 3-cell sheet to check this out, and - it is a behavior
> broken beyond any justification attempt.
>
> Moreover, I spent sometimes in the options dialog box (that just the looks the
> same ms office did in 1996), searching for a way to disable the "convert e-mail
> to hyperlink" behavior applcation wise, and could not find any. (Which does not
> mean it is not there, just that it is another broken point in the UI).
>
That was in one of my earlier posts:

You can better switch off the automatic URL transformation:

Tools > AutoCorrect Options > Options > URL Recognition

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