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I'm using the hyperref package because I have a link in my document, but do not want to have the TOC as links. How can this be done?

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Welcome to TeX.sx! I took the liberty to rephrase your title in order to reflect the actual question. I also changed the body because of this. I hope you don't mind. – Martin Scharrer♦ May 9 '12 at 20:58
If you only want to typeset an URL without making it a real hyperlink all you need is the url package which gives you \url. – Martin Scharrer♦ May 9 '12 at 21:01
Thank you, can I add the words instead of the link showing up like you would in the \href{linkto go to}{this is the text} – StudentRik May 9 '12 at 21:07
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No, \url is just for URLs, not for hyperlinks. I'm afraid you need hyperref for links like this. I checked the manual but couldn't find an option to disable TOC links. – Martin Scharrer♦ May 9 '12 at 21:11
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you could use something like \hypersetup{linkcolor=black} immediately before your toc and then change it immediately afterwards – cmhughes May 9 '12 at 21:16

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Hyperref has a somewhat under-documented switch for this:

\documentclass{article}


\usepackage{hyperref}

\makeatletter
\let\Hy@linktoc\Hy@linktoc@none
\makeatother



\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\section{aaa}
aaa
\section{bbb}
bbb
\end{document}
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A "somewhat under-documented switch": this must be the understatement of the year! :-) – Mico May 9 '12 at 22:42
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There is the option linktocpage for hyperref; it defaults to 'false', while:

\usepackage[linktocpage=true]{hyperref}

will make the page numbers rather than the text of the ToC the active link. This, along with the suggestion of @cmhughes will minimize how 'clickable' your ToC is and even make it look like there are no links to click on.

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