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It's an autocorrect option, you can disable the behavior there. Also, at least in 2000, when you right click on the cell one of the options is "remove hyperlink".

Are hyperlinks not opening or working in your Excel workbooks? In Excel, hyperlinks are used to open specific documents, files, folders, or web addresses saved on a network server, intranet, or web.