Dear Schackbo,

Good day! Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

We went through the post carefully. We're afraid there is no build-in feature in Word Online to turn off Ctrl + click for hyperlinks. Apologize for the inconvenience.

If you want one-mouse click to open hyperlinks in Word Online, you may switch to Reading View by clicking View tab > Reading View, and hyperlinks will be clickable without needing to press Ctrl + click.

Personally I completely agree with you, it would be definitely ideal if we can add feature to turn off Ctrl + click for hyperlinks in Word Online as that in Word desktop version. This is a good addition to the current features of Word Online. Thank you for bring thing to our attention.

We sincerely recommend you vote for this similar idea in Word Feedback Community: Turn off Ctrl + click for hyperlink in Word Online · Community (microsoft.com) Our Product Team is in-charge of the site and they are constantly checking the comments and feedback from our customer. Many features have been developed and improved based on users' comment.

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding! Hope you keep safe and healthy always.

Sincerely,

Tina | Microsoft Community Moderator

Simple click doesn't work, and my software is already set to have Ctrl + Click open hyperlinks. If there are any other suggestions?

CTRL + Click is the normal convention for any Microsoft product when the file is in Editing mode. You'll see when then you're writing an email, when you're creating a document or spreadsheet, etc. Using CTRL + Click allows you to use a regular click in a consistent way: as a placer or selector command.

As Word documents are always editable, you'll always need to press CTRL prior to clicking the link in order for it to work while the file is in that format. But once you've exported the file to any non-editable format, such as PDF or HTML, you'll find the links will behave as you expect, opening with a "simple" click.

Within Word you can change the View to Read Mode in the View tab and then you'll just be able to click the link without having to hold CTRL, but this only works because you're not editing the document when you're in Read mode and so there's no reason for Word to assume you wish to place or select in that context.