I have a column in excel, wherein I have all the website url values. My question is I want to turn the url values to active links. There are about 200 entries in that column with different urls in all cells. Is there a way I can create active hyperlinks to all the cells without writing a macro. Show
hawbsl 14.8k24 gold badges73 silver badges113 bronze badges asked Apr 7, 2010 at 20:30
If you don't want to make a macro and as long as you don't mind an additional column, then just create a new column alongside your column of URLs. In the new column type in the formula NOTE:
This solution does not work if the cell A1 contains a string longer than 255 characters. It results in a
John Rocha 1,6283 gold badges18 silver badges30 bronze badges answered Apr 7, 2010 at 20:47
hawbslhawbsl 14.8k24 gold badges73 silver badges113 bronze badges 7 Create the macro as here: On the Tools menu in Microsoft Excel, point to Macro, and then click Visual Basic Editor. On the Insert menu, click Module. Copy and paste this code into the code window of the module. It will automatically name itself HyperAdd.
When you're finished pasting your macro, click Close and Return to Microsoft Excel on the File menu. Then select the required cells and click macro and click run. NOTE Do NOT select the whole column! Select ONLY the cells you wish to be changed to clickable links else you will end up in a neverending loop and have to restart Excel! Done!
Neil 5,73225 silver badges36 bronze badges answered Nov 2, 2012 at 19:10
Steve KeenanSteve Keenan 1,0871 gold badge7 silver badges5 bronze badges 10 Pretty easy way for rather short lists:
You have your link ;)
answered Jan 18, 2014 at 19:43
user3210679user3210679 3273 silver badges2 bronze badges 7 Here's a way I found. I'm on a
Mac using Excel 2011. If column B had the text values you want to be hyperlinks, put this formula in the cell C1 (or D1 or whatever as long as it's a free column): If you have a list of IDs of something, and the urls were
all
you could use something like According to this post: http://excelhints.com/2007/06/12/hyperlink-formula-in-excel/ this method will work in Excel 2007 as well.
answered Aug 1, 2012 at 18:24
MartyMarty 6091 gold badge7 silver badges13 bronze badges 2 OK, here's a hokey solution, but I just can't figure out how to get Excel to evaluate a column of URLs as hyperlinks in bulk.
The hyperlink style alone won't convert to clickable links, and the "Insert Hyperlink" dialog can't seem to use the text as the address for a bunch of cells in bulk. Aside from that, F2 and Enter through all cells would do it, but that's tedious for a lot of cells.
JasonMArcher 13.6k22 gold badges55 silver badges51 bronze badges answered Apr 7, 2010 at 20:47
3 If adding an extra column with the hyperlinks is not an option, the
alternative is to use an external editor to enclose your hyperlink into If you have Notepad++, this is a recipe you can use to perform this operation semi-automatically:
answered May 8, 2017 at 13:53
AntonioAntonio 18.7k12 gold badges93 silver badges192 bronze badges 5 I shocked Excel didn't do this automatically so here is my solution I hope would be useful for others,
Instead step two, you can use the below page, first, click on "Run code snippet" then paste the column on it
answered Sep 17, 2018 at 21:06
Ebrahim ByagowiEbrahim Byagowi 9,5784 gold badges67 silver badges77 bronze badges 3 This method works for me using the hyperlink function:
Where
JasonMArcher 13.6k22 gold badges55 silver badges51 bronze badges answered Mar 26, 2013 at 5:07
1 With Excel 2007 on Windows, I found these steps simplest;
Matt 73.3k26 gold badges150 silver badges179 bronze badges answered May 26, 2013 at 15:08
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VinVin 1,5854 gold badges24 silver badges33 bronze badges I found that none of the methods here worked if the hyperlink did not include http:// as they linked to local locations. I also wanted to fool-proof the script as the users would not be able to maintain it themselves and I would not be available. It will only run on cells in a selected range if they contain a dot and no spaces. It will only run for up to 10,000 cells.
answered Apr 15, 2015 at 9:28
CassiopeiaCassiopeia 3031 gold badge3 silver badges16 bronze badges 1 For me I just copied the entire column which has the URLs in text format into another application (say Evernote), and when they were pasted there they became links, and then I just copied them back into Excel. The only thing here is you need to make sure the data you copy back lines up with the rest of the columns. answered Jul 14, 2016 at 17:17
AbuMariamAbuMariam 3,05013 gold badges46 silver badges76 bronze badges Try this: =HYPERLINK("mailto:"&A1, A1) Replace A1 with your text of email address cell. answered Sep 9, 2014 at 0:54
For anyone landing here with Excel 2016, you can simply highlight
the column, then click the Edit: Unfortunately, this only updates the cell style, not the function. answered Oct 6, 2017 at 19:46
jGrootjGroot 5904 silver badges9 bronze badges 4 You can insert the formula answered Sep 1, 2013 at 8:04
th3an0malyth3an0maly 3,2528 gold badges30 silver badges54 bronze badges If you copy the text contents into a new column and use:
on your original column. Then use the
That's the only way it worked for me on Excel 2010 on Windows 7. You can copy down the formula.
Ruskin 5,3303 gold badges43 silver badges62 bronze badges answered Jun 9, 2014 at 14:43
Thank you Cassiopeia for code. I change his code to work with local addresses and made little changes to his conditions. I removed following conditions:
answered Nov 23, 2016 at 7:11
JunaidJunaid 1111 silver badge10 bronze badges 3 I had a list of numbers that feed into url's I want hotlinked. For example I have Column A with question numbers (i.e., 2595692, 135171) and I want to turn these question numbers into hotlinks and to display only the question numbers. So I built a text-only hyperlink pointing to Column A, and copied it down for all my question numbers: ="=HYPERLINK("&"""http""&"":"""&""&"&"&"""//stackoverflow.com/questions/"&A1&""""&","&A1&")" Then I copy - paste value this column of text hyperlinks to another column. You end up with a column of text that looks like the following: =HYPERLINK("http"&":"&"//stackoverflow.com/questions/2595692",2595692) Then I selected these pasted items and ran the F2Entry Macro that follows:
I then deleted the text entry column and Column A. I ended up with a single column of hotlinked question numbers: 2595692 135171 etc. Cheers answered Nov 9, 2018 at 8:11
On Mac, a dead easy way to do it is select your entire spreadsheet in Excel, copy, launch Numbers, paste, then select all, copy, and paste back into Excel. answered May 26, 2021 at 7:37
mrzzmrmrzzmr 6191 gold badge6 silver badges6 bronze badges 2 Easiest way here
vfclists 18.5k19 gold badges70 silver badges90 bronze badges answered Jul 20, 2014 at 18:54
2 The simplest way in Excel 2010: Select the column with the URL text, then select Hyperlink Style from the Home tab. All URLs in the column are now hyperlinks. Also double clicking each cell at the end of the URL text and adding a blank or just enter will also produce a hyperlink. Similar to the way you have to create URL links in MS Outlook emails. answered Nov 19, 2013 at 13:13
1 There is a very simple way to do this. Create one hyperlink, and then use the Format Painter to copy down the formatting. It will create a hyperlink for every item. answered Oct 5, 2012 at 17:11
1 How do you select a hyperlink in Excel?On the Insert tab, select Hyperlink. You can also right-click the cell and then select Hyperlink... on the shortcut menu, or you can press Ctrl+K. Under Display Text:, type the text that you want to use to represent the link. Under Place in this document:, enter the defined name or cell reference.
How do you click on hyperlink in Excel without opening?* Click the cell that contains the hyperlink, hold the mouse button until the pointer becomes a cross Excel selection pointer, and then release the mouse button. * Use the arrow keys to select the cell that contains the hyperlink.
How do I activate all hyperlinks in Excel?To activate all the links, write a macro that runs the links from each cell in turn.. Click the Developer ribbon.. Click "Macros" from the ribbon's "Code" tab to open Excel's Visual Basic editor. ... . Add the following For-Next loop within the routine to run code on each cell in a range:. How do you click a hyperlink in Excel without using the mouse?To open a link without going through "Edit Links" follow these couple of steps: click on a cell that is linked to another file. then press Ctrl + [. press the menu key (that has a similar effect to a right click). press "o" twice.. press "Enter".. |