I have an Excel sheet with poorly formatted data. Some of this data is URLs. On another tab, I have a nicer format and point to the poorly formatted data. I would like the link to the URL's to open the URL, but it is not working.
Example:
Sheet 1, Cell A1 contains the hyperlink Name: Google, Address:www.google.com
--clicking on this cell opens www.google.com
Sheet 2, Cell A1 = HYPERLINK("Sheet1!A1")
I'd like to click Sheet 2, cell A1 and open www.google.com but I get "Cannot open specified file".
I believe this worked on older versions of Excel but not 100% positive.
I've tried turning off the Web Option:Files:Update Links on Save - did not work.
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I have created a local excel sheet in Microsoft excel in which i have used some formulas. I have hidden all the formulas used in it. But when i open the sheet via Google sheets one is able to see all the formulas clearly.
Is there any way we can hide the formulas from anywhere the sheet is opened.
As Player0 commented here, using importrange produced an error:
You don't have permissions to access that sheet.
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What to do
01 Convert the xlxs file into Google sheet file, by going to File > Save as Google sheets.
02 Get the ID of the converted sheet and use it in the importrange formula in the shared spreadsheet in A1 like this.
=IMPORTRANGE("Converted_spreadsheet_ID", "Converted_spreadsheet_SheetName!=1:1000")
INTRODUCTION
I have made a excel sheet of file index. Each file entry is linked with scanned copy of the file. So when i click the file name in excel sheet the linked PDF file opens.
ACTIVITY
In a separate worksheet i have made a search function based on multiple search results with partial matching. So when i enter part of either file name or subject i get the file name using
" =IF($F$1="","",IFERROR(INDEX(A$2:A$8,SMALL(IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH($F$1,B$2:B$8)),ROW(B$2:B$8)-ROW(B$2)+1),ROWS(B$2:B2))),""))
"
PROBLEM
The file name obtained is plain text without the hyperlink associated with the file name in the master database.
WHAT HAS BEEN TRIED
I have tried using
(A) =IFERROR(HYPERLINK(.....))
(B) =HYPERLINK(CELL NUMBER)(By getting the row number from formula and using index function to reference the cell)
There is a tiny trick:
Insure the hyperlinks in the source column are formatted so that the "display name" is the URL. You can use either Inserted hyperlinks or the =HYPERLINK() worksheet function.
Say we have links in column A and we want an alphbetized list in column C. In B1 enter:
=LOOKUP(1,0/FREQUENCY(ROWS($1:1),COUNTIF($A$1:$A$3,"<="&$A$1:$A$3)),$A$1:$A$3)
and copy downward. (Column B is in alphabetic order, but the links are "cold") Then in C1 enter:
=HYPERLINK(B1,B1)
Even though the links in column B are "cold", the links in column C are "hot"
I have an Excel file which needs to be sent to my colleagues. However, there is a column "link" which includes the text URL, the URL only can be activated when I double click this cell. How can I automatically activate these text URLs so my colleagues don't need to double click on each cell?
Thanks,
Jennifer.
With inactive links in column A, in B2 (or some other column) enter:
=HYPERLINK(A2,A2)
and copy downward.
This costs you an extra column, but it minimizes the need for "special handling". An alternative approach might be to activate all the cell in the column with a small SendKeys macro.
In my excel sheet I am creating URLs by concatenating the content of various cells.
The formula in D2 is =CONCATENATE("http://",A2,".",B2)
The problem I have is that the resulting URL is not seen as a hyperlink, and I have to manually copy, paste as value and then configure the hyperlink to make it work.
Is there a way to let excel recognize it as a URL and make it immediatly clickable?
In D2 enter:
=HYPERLINK(CONCATENATE("http://",A2,".",B2),CONCATENATE("http://",A2,".",B2))
(you can now replace the second argument with a "user friendly" label)
I'd like to have an HTML file with a URL that points to particular cell in local Excel file.
For example using file://temp/Workbook.xlsx#Sheet1!$A$5 opens the Workbook.xlsx spreadsheet with the cursor already at A5 on sheet Sheet1.
Couldn't find a URL format for that.
Is that possible?