Disable Links in PDF?

For security reasons.

OK, this was extremely helpful and made my job, on one level, much easier.  Thank you.

However, I am working with emails that appear to originate from Outlook and there are links within the doc that appear as text yet when you position your cursor over them, they are actually links.  There is nothing to indicate that they are links, no http at the beginning, nothing.

An example, from an email:

------Original Message-------

From: Doe, John < john.doe @ nodomain.com >  (sans the spaces, of course)

Now, when you look at it, it does not appear to be a link, but when you position your cursor over it, a little window pops up that says "mailto:john.doe @ nodomain.com." This is what I want to get rid of.

I don't want anyone to be able to position their cursor over the email area and be able to obtain the full email address.  I am redacting the first part, but must leave the domain part so this is my dilemma.

Anyone have any good ideas?  How can I avoid this in the future?  Or is there even a way to avoid this?  Is this something that just can't be done?

I welcome any suggestions.  Thanks.

I am creating from emails originating from Outlook.

This is a bit of a nightmare.  Many, many (email address) links that look like innocent text, but are actually links to folks' personal email.

Maybe I should have clarified that in my first post, that it is email address links.  I apologize, I was just pretty frustrated and fired off the post without giving all of the details.  Sorry. 

Yes, thank you.  I have figured out how to disable those.  However, the email address links are the ones giving me trouble.

Any ideas???

Well, I am redacting the first part of the email address, but I have to leave the domain part.

Even when part of the address is redacted, you can still view the full email address (link) by hovering your cursor over the domain name.