How do I convert a column of text URLs into active hyperlinks in Excel?

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developer picture developer · Apr 7, 2010 · Viewed 636.9k times · Source

I have a column in excel, wherein I have all the website url values. My question is I want to turn the url values to active links. There are about 200 entries in that column with different urls in all cells. Is there a way I can create active hyperlinks to all the cells without writing a macro.

Answer

hawbsl picture hawbsl · Apr 7, 2010

If you don't want to make a macro and as long as you don't mind an additional column, then just create a new column alongside your column of URLs.

In the new column type in the formula =HYPERLINK(A1) (replacing A1 with whatever cell you are interested in). Then copy the formula down the rest of the 200 entries.

NOTE: This solution does not work if the cell A1 contains a string longer than 255 characters. It results in a #VALUE! error

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