Creating URL with formula in excel - excel

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)

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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:
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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.

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Please see current formula below. How do I add for the hyperlink to be used in conjunction with the IF command as I only want the link to show if specific text is selected.
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Something like this:
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I want, when I am pasting links to a cell, that the text would automatically be wrapped with another text.
For instance, I have this link copied in my clipboard: http://example.com. When I paste it in a cell, I want it automatically to be wrapped by another text:
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I would do it using Excel formulas. I think it's the quickest solution, if you are not planning to to this task repetitively a lot of times.
If you paste your link in A1, in B1 I would put this:
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It is easily done in VBA.
Press Alt+F11 (this will open the VBA editor)
Insert a new module.
Copy this in to the module:
Function GetHyperlink(Rng As Range)
GetHyperlink = Rng.Hyperlinks(1).Address
End Function
(This will add a new custom function, which is a formula that extracts hyperlink from cell)
Then if you go back to your workbook, enter a formula where you want to extract the hyperlink.
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Assuming your hyperlinked cell is in A1.
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I have a list of documents that I want to paste relative links to in Excel. I converted the list to a list of Excel formulas that look like
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