Programmatically Add Links to Excel Spreadsheet - excel

Question

I am working on adding links to a spreadsheet of variable length through PowerShell and I am running into an error no matter how I do it. This is the loop I am currently trying to make work, which is nested within an excel comobject, with $sheet representing $excel.activeworkbook.activesheet :
$v = 2
foreach($i in $list){
$r = "A"+$v
$link = "www.url.com"
$sheet.Hyperlinks.Add($r,$link)
$v++
}
Which keeps throwing the following error:
Exception setting "Add": Cannot convert the "A2" value of type "string" to type "Object".
At C:\hyperlink_wip.ps1:31 char:5
+ $sheet.Hyperlinks.Add($r,$link)
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : RuntimeException
in this example, $list is a list which contains the information from one column of this spreadsheet and will always be the same length as the spreadsheet itself. The spreadsheet also has a header row, so the cells I want to hyperlink start at A2. I also tried the method outlined here for adding links to an excel spreadsheet but got an incorrect format error each time I tried it.

Answer 1

$r isn't a Range or Shape. Here's the Add Method on MSDN
Here's an example of how you could use it in your code:
$v = 2
foreach($i in $list){
$r = $sheet.range("A"+$v)
$link = "www.url.com"
$sheet.Hyperlinks.Add($r,$link)
$v++
}