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tamarawill24
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago
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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...
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    Hannah
    5 years ago
    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.
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Hannah
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5 years ago
I 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!
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evanhill
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

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.

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    evanhill
    New member | Level 2
    3 years ago

    Please enable users to choose if they want to see their URLs as previews in Paper or plain URLs. Most users want to see plain URLs. Currently there is no choice. All URLs render as previews. The only solutions are user hacks. Please enable users to turn off URL previews.

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