Automatic formatting of hyperlinks

[Gurke123]

Ive been using webex alot rececntly and there is one feature that keeps frustrating me.

whenever posting a Link into a conversation or chat room it gets automticly formatted do the Tabe name of the referenced website.

Example: https://webex.com -> automaticly formatted to The leader in collaboration & customer experience | Webex

is there any way to disable that, tanks in advance

[RedNectar · Accepted solution]

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Hi @Gurke123 ,

[Edit: I already answered this question once before - which was an even better answer. I'll repeat it here.  I've also found that if you put dashes before and after the URI, then this confuses Webex sufficiently to NOT convert your URI, but leave it readable - e.g. -https://cisco.com- bit of a kludge, but you don't need to enable markdown for this method]

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Repeat of answer from 2020 below

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The way to disable the automatic conversion of IP addresses to URIs in Webex Teams is to use Markdown.  It is a but fiddly, but works OK.

Firstly, make sure Markdown is enabled

Now you can use Code format to write IP addresses. Code format is envoked by enclosing your message with four backticks at each end - like this:

````1.1.1.1````

 Now you IP address will stay as an IP address and can be copied easily from the chat.

Note: The same method can be used to stop ````cisco.com```` being converted to https://cisco.com

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Here's my original answer to this question

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The way to disable automatic formatting of URIs is to use Markdown and then use an incredibly convoluted syntax to provide the text you want to appear in the link.  Unfortunately, I don't believe that you can convince Webex that it does not knw better than you if want text that Webex THINKS is a URI being transformed into a link.

First, you have to enable markdown, then enter some text that will be displayed in your message (it can't be blank) inside brackets, followed by the URI in parentheses - e.g. [my silly text here](https://webex.com) 

Here's a short video