How can I open Excel 2010 hyperlinks with the keyboard? - excel

I want to Google search a term. So, I did a concatenate formula that creates a hyperlink. It looks something like:
=CONCATENATE("https://www.google.com/search?q=",A1)
Where A1 is the location of the term I want to search.
So far, so good. This gives me a hyperlink in text form. Then, I create a second column to establish the actual hyperlink:
=HYPERLINK(location of the concatenate formula result)
Great. I've got a working hyperlink. If I use the mouse to click that formula, it opens the Google search correctly.
Now, I want to use the keyboard instead of my mouse to click this hyperlink. I need to do a bunch of these types of searches. Maybe I'll create a macro that can open them for me a few at a time.
Anyway, this older post describes a way of opening hyperlinks in Excel without using the mouse. The problem I have is that I don't see "Open Hyperlink" in my context menu. All I've got is "Remove Hyperlink".
Any ideas why and what I can do to work around it? Thanks!

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How to paste the website link into excel which is linked to the website?

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Hi all,
I want to paste a website link into excel so that once I click the link, it will direct me to the website. However, some of the cells in my excel worksheet work well but some are not as shown in the screenshot above. May I know is there any thing that I need to adjust in term of format? Thank you.
When you enter what appears to be a web address Excel will automatically convert it into a hyperlink. It will then appear in blue and underscored. To get rid of the hyperlink select the cell and type "Remove hyperlink" in the Help field.
After that the web address becomes normal text and appears black. You can simply invoke the first mentioned automation by clicking in the cell, press F2 and Enter.
In my version of Excel (Microsoft Excel for Microsoft 365 MSO (16.0.13426.20270)), a pasted text is turned into a hyperlink if it is pasted in "write" or "edit" mode for a cell and then "Enter" or "Tab" is pressed.
"Write" mode can be invoked by double-clicking on a cell. "Edit" mode can be invoked by for example pressing F2, or clicking on the formula bar which is normally displayed as a text-field above the cell matrix.

keyboard shortcut to formula editing field (literally) in Excel? (Not F2)

I am looking for the keyboard shortcut to edit a formula in the formula edit field. I am not looking for similar functionality such as F2, which allows you to edit the formula, but only with the cursor in the cell you are working on.
Put another way, I am looking to move my cursor to the field to the right of the "fx" (function sign + "x") field that is just below the ribbon so I can edit a formula in Excel and have it behave the way I want.
I know many will ask why. The main reason I want to do this is when formulas get long they wrap (which is difficult to follow) and/or cover up adjacent cells (which makes modeling more difficult). I don't want to change the wrapping behavior etc. because I actually use it (it is helpful) in some cases.
I do not want a solution that involves a macro because I want this to work on any computer I am working on.
Been Excel'ing for a long time and this is one of the few things I have to go to the mouse for and it slows me down.
EDIT: also can't lose the reference color coded highlighting. F2 then Ctrl + A gets the cursor up there in the formula bar, but the wrapping in the cell stays (bad) and the color coded reference highlighting goes away (bad).
I found a way but you may or may not like it.
In Excel older than 2007 do the following and then use F2:
From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Click the Edit tab.
Uncheck the Edit Directly In Cell option in the Settings area.
Click OK
In Excel 2007 and newer do the following and then use F2:
Click the Office button and then click Excel Options (at the bottom
right).
Select Advanced in the left pane.
Uncheck the Allow Editing Directly In Cell option.
Click OK.
Giving credit where credit is due I found this on the below site by simply googling "excel keyboard shortcuts formula bar"
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/microsoft-office/quick-access-to-excel-formula-bar-via-keyboard/

Reference Excel cells in Word

Does anyone know of a pre-packaged solution for referencing Excel cells directly in a Word document?
For example,
{[TestExcel]Tab1!A1}
Dear Mr. {[TestExcel]Tab1!A2},
Our systems have alerted us that your account {TestExcel]Tab1!AccountNumber} is overdue. Please remit payment of {TestExcel]Tab1!PaymentDue} immediately.
This example uses a hypothetical { } syntax, where the contents are standard Excel formula.
Every solution I've seen uses custom VBA to accomplish this. It seems like an extremely common need for which there should be some good 3rd party software available that lets non-technical users accomplish this task.
As indicated in the example above both named ranges and standard cell references would need to be supported.
Yes.
Step 1: Copy the excel cell.
Step 2: Go to your word document where you want to paste the reference.
Step 3: Right click
Step 4: Under paste options, select "link with source formatting" or "link and merge formatting".
I tried #Green Demon's method, but the two Paste Options listed were not present for me (Office 2013). I only had Keep Source Formatting, Merge Formatting, and Keep Text Only. However, I poked around and found the Paste Special, which was hidden on the Ribbon
The instructions are as follows:
Copy the Excel range.
Go to your Word document, and left click where you want to paste the Excel range.
Click on Paste Special from the Ribbon as shown below, or type Ctrl+Alt+V.
Click on the Paste link radio button.
Click on Microsoft Excel Worksheet Object. The Paste Special dialog box should look something like this:
Click OK.
The range should now be pasted in your document, and if you save, close, and re-open the Word document, you will be prompted about whether or not you want to "update this document with the data from the linked files," which works the same way as it does if you're doing Excel-to-Excel linking.
This feature is fantastic, and I'm so happy to have found it today. However, in my brief experience using it, having these Word-to-Excel links dramatically increases the amount of time it takes to open your Word document, even before it prompts you about updating. After that, the act of updating the Excel links takes much longer than it would if you were doing the same linking Excel-to-Excel. All of my work is done on network-share files, so YMMV.
While Will's solution indeed links from the Cell objet, the content is inserted as a picture.
In the same dialog, selecting "Unformatted Unicode Text" instead will link and insert only the cell's content, which is desirable if you apply custom formatting on your text.
Unfortunately, this action only works for a single cell. Copying multiple cells will result in a text block with individual cell content seperated by tabs or line skip, with the entire block considered linked and entire. The solution is to link individual cells using this method.
This can become tedious if you plan on linking large portions of table from Excel, as for every cell the dialog must be invoked. It can be sped up by using hotkeys, but the sequence gets tedious:
alt,h,v,s, then alt+l, tab, ↓, and finally Enter
Obviously this is not practial for large numbers of cells. A AutoHotkey script can help but it third party grafted solution, on par with using VBA scripts.
alt+h+v+l works too. If you're building big documents clicking the ribbon every time gets murderous after a while.
As this is still a problem but the other answers do not take into account the latest development in word, there is a new solution, editing Green Demons answer:
Step 1: Copy the excel cell.
Step 2: Go to your word document where you want to paste the reference.
Step 3: go to the "home" tab
Step 4: Under paste options, go to "Paste Special", click on "paste link", click on "Unformatted Text".
This solves the issue others were having with the new lines that you would otherwise have with just Green Demons' solution.
Hope this still helps others.

Loading Image from URL in Excel

Basically I have a gigantic excel spread sheet with over 20,000 URL's. It would be very inefficient of me to click on each link to check the image. Instead I was wondering if I could take the url from one cell and load the image into a different cell. This of course would have to be a loop as I have so many images to load. So far I found a thread on this already but I have no idea how to implement this code.
How to get images to appear in Excel given image url
If someone could tell me how to use this code that would be great and you will also save my sanity. Thanks!
While your Excel sheet is open, press ALT+F11 (Edit: Not Ctrl)
This will open the Visual Basic editor. From there, locate the project explorer to the left side of the screen. It should appear something like VBAProject (YourWorkBookName.XLS)
right click it and select Insert -> Module.
You should see a blank white space for you to put code in. Just paste the code you found from the other post, but make sure you paste it inside a SUB definition , like this:
Sub AnyNameCanBeChoosen()
' Paste your code Here
End Sub
Then press F5 to execute your code.

How do I add a form in an Excel sheet?

How can I add an input form in an Excel sheet. I want to insert values into an Excel cell using the form.
ALT+F11 starts the VBA editor in Excel. In there you can create UserForms (Insert | UserForm) which you can bind into their own modules or attach to worksheets.
I suggest you look at the Excel help or MSDN for details of what you can do with UserForms. There are also a lot of VBA tutorials on the web for exactly this sort of thing. Google is your friend.
HTH
There is a quick and dirty method of creating simple forms in Excel. No VBA is required.
First, create a table with the basic format that you want.
E.g.
A B C
1 Name Age Favourite Animal
2 Jane 11 Horse
Select the range, and then select Data | Form. (This is in Excel 2003.)
It will open up a simple form that allows navigation, creation, deletion, and searching.
#Oddthinking,
Cool trick. Never knew it existed. I had to do a little looking, but you can do it in Excel 2007 as well.
Click the Office button, select Excel Options, go to the Customize tab
Select 'Commands Not in the Ribbon' from the 'Choose commands from' drop down
Find 'Form' in the list and click Add, then click OK
At this point, the Forms command will show up on the Quick Access toolbar, next to the Save and Undo/Redo icons.
You have to activate the form toolbar.
Of course, IIRC, the form must be handled by VBA code.

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