I greatly appreciate MS Word automatically adding hyperlinks, but recently somehow/when instead of a simple working hyperlink like:



ESPN: Serving sports fans. Anytime. Anywhere.


...it automatically generates:


{ HYPERLINK "http://espn.com"}


I have played with the proofing --> autocorrect options --> AutoFormat settings to no avail.



The longer generated hyperlinks make documents and footnotes a real slog to work through! How can I keep the automatic hyperlink function without the loooong text? Help!