How do I disable automatic link in a Confluence page

[Mike Naseef]

When I have text like "this must start with file:/" in a confluence page, Confluence is automatically converting "file:/" to a clickable link - even though I don't have any square brackets around it. Can I disable this somehow or escape the code so that it will show as "file:/" and not ,e.g., "file\:/" and not be blue and clickable? NB, I use the Wiki Markup tab, not the Rich Text.

Thanks,

Mike

[Mike Naseef · Accepted solution]

So, I discovered the answer by using the rich text editor - the nolink macro seems to take care of this: {nolink:file:/}.