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Excel Hyperlink 2007
Hi experts,
I am trying to maintain documents/artifacts inventory in excel 2007 and have source and destination columns for information source and then where I am uploading in SharePoint. Instead of long links displayed I want to give some proper name ABC for example and when clicked on it should take to the website. I was able to do for some and not for many links . I think excel does not support links length more then 250 characters. I tried using tinyurl.com to shorten the link , but my co doesn't allow using it. So without diving into VBA , is there a simple solution to giving meaningful names to hyperlinks that are longer 250+ in characters in excel 2007?
Thanks in advance
excel-hyperlink-issue.xlsx
I am trying to maintain documents/artifacts inventory in excel 2007 and have source and destination columns for information source and then where I am uploading in SharePoint. Instead of long links displayed I want to give some proper name ABC for example and when clicked on it should take to the website. I was able to do for some and not for many links . I think excel does not support links length more then 250 characters. I tried using tinyurl.com to shorten the link , but my co doesn't allow using it. So without diving into VBA , is there a simple solution to giving meaningful names to hyperlinks that are longer 250+ in characters in excel 2007?
Thanks in advance
excel-hyperlink-issue.xlsx
Use concatenate function for longer strings
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Please solve the above link as an example. I am a visual person and like to see if the above link can be given a name for example "ABC" and when ABC is clicked the above link should open. In the meantime, I will research using concatenate. Thanks again
Like this???
ABC
ABC
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Paul ,
yes like the example you just showed above but that needs to happen in excel and not like the link above.I need a solution in excel where a long hyperlink can be given a descriptive short name and when clicked on it , the link should open.
yes like the example you just showed above but that needs to happen in excel and not like the link above.I need a solution in excel where a long hyperlink can be given a descriptive short name and when clicked on it , the link should open.
I tried and tried - but for the really long links, it can't be done!
When I copy the above link using the above example and get only the first part of the link,
But you CAN copy the entire link directly to a cell and to hide it by writing something in the cell immediately to the right of the link!
When I copy the above link using the above example and get only the first part of the link,
But you CAN copy the entire link directly to a cell and to hide it by writing something in the cell immediately to the right of the link!
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Thanks, this helped solve the issue.