How to hide change owner button next to the owner field in Classic?

Question

I want to hide the [change] on field owner in salesforce classic, the owner field is standard field with Lookup(User,Group), is it possible?

Answer 1

As far as i remember that is not possible.

A workaround could be the following. Create a custom Field :

• Name: Record Owner
• API: Record_Owner__c
• Type: Formula
• Return Type: Text
• Formula: HYPERLINK("/" & OwnerId , Owner.FirstName &" "& Owner.LastName , '_self')

Then swap out the standard owner field, for the custom formula on the necessary PageLayout(s).

Note: This will only work, if the Owner is a User, not a Queue. If you have a queue as an owner, you'll have to modify it.