How to Control the Colors of Hyperlinks in Excel for Mac

Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet application allows you to insert hyperlinks into your spreadsheet that can take users to Web pages, documents, anchors within the spreadsheet or emails. By default, the text for these hyperlinks appears in a blue color. If you want to change the color of the hyperlinks in your Excel spreadsheet, you can do so by highlighting the cell that contains the hyperlink and selecting a new font color.

Instructions

1. Double-click the "Excel" application icon to launch the application.

2. Click the "File" tab and select the "Open" option. Locate the spreadsheet file you want to change the hyperlink text color in on the computer's hard drive, highlight it and click the "Open" button to open the file in the application.

3. Click on the cell that contains the hyperlink whose color you want to change to select the cell.

4. Click the "Home" in the Excel window to view the application's default toolbar.

5. Click the arrow to the right of the "Font Color" icon to view the list of available font colors. The "Font Color" icon resembles a capital letter "A" with a line of color beneath it.

6. Select the color that you want to change the hyperlink to from the list of choices. The hyperlink will automatically be changed to match the color you selected.