I have a simple question (I think) of how to link two cells in Excel. I have a tab with a list of master cells that all contain hyperlinks to websites. I regularly need to update these links.
In other tabs I need to make new combinations of this list. I would like to be able to link to the 'master cells' in the first row and retain the hyperlink, so that the hyperlinks to websites are retained in the tabs with the new combinations. Is this possible? When I link regularly by typing = and clicking the cell in the 'master cell-tab I only get the text and not the hyperlink to the website.
Thanks :)
You can use the Hyperlink function. If you use a cell reference as the first input, it'll use the hyperlink attached to that cell.
For example, let's say Cell A1 contains the link "excel linking cells and retain hyperlink in the master cells". If you input the formula =HYPERLINK(A1, "Click here") into Cell A2, you'll be able to click on A2 and it'll use the hyperlink attached to A1
Note that this doesn't work when chaining references (e.g. if we continue with the previous example, and you put the hyperlink formula in A3 referring to A2, it'll fail and prompt you that there is an error with the link).
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is there a possibility to get the value of a specific cell in a google sheet via a url? (as text/xml string whatever).
I need a calculated value from a cell on a other plattform. preferably just with a GET via a url.
thanks in advance for a tip.
This has been implemented a couple of years ago in Google Sheets:
Link to: A single cell in a sheet
Click on the spreadsheet cell to be referenced. For example, cell
C7.
Open the contextual menu (using secondary click: right-click,
ctrl-click, etc.).
Scroll down the menu and click on the "Get link to this cell" item.
The message "The link has been copied to the clipboard" will be
shown.
Paste the link's URL from the clipboard anywhere it's needed. It
will be similar to:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/<file-id>#gid=<sheet-id>&range=<cell>
Some things to notice about the arguments contained in the fragment identifier of this URL:
gid= – This is the ID of a sheet in the spreadsheet. New spreadsheets have one sheet with the ID 0. The ID of the currently visible sheet is usually shown in the browser's URL bar.
range= – This is the address of the referenced cell, in "A1 format" (column letter and cell number).
The contextual menu seems to be the only way in the GS UI to get cell URLs. There aren't any other menu items that do this.
Reference:
Link to a cell in Google Sheets
I am trying to create a dynamic hyperlink that checks references cell "J2" and checks "Options!B4:BI14" range for a match. I am trying to get the label to be the matching cells value, and the link to go to the cell.
Using the below formula I am getting the right label, right cell, and right link address, but its still not opening the sheet and linking to the cell when I click on it
=HYPERLINK(SUBSTITUTE("#"&CELL("address",index(Options!B4:BI14,Match(Options!B4,Options!B4:B14,0),Match(J2,Options!B8:BI8,0))),"$",""),index(Options!B4:BI14,Match(Options!B4,Options!B4:B14,0),Match(J2,Options!B8:BI8,0)))
Is there an easier way to accomplish what I am trying to do?
you do miss a gid and you should use range. example:
I have a contents page of all the sheets in the document.
All of the cells listed under 'Rounds' and 'Data Input' have the same name as the sheet they are linking to, as you can see in the screenshot.
I was wondering if there is a way to create a link for all of these cells automatically, instead of going through every single one.
Thanks for the help.
I was able to do this by recording a Macro. Here are the steps I did whilst recording.
Delete all contents in the cells.
Paste in the array formula #player0 made me, into the first cell under the 'Rounds' column.
Select all the cells in the column and click on 'Convert to Links'.
Set colour to blue and underline so it looks like a link.
Here's the finished macro.
The end goal is to have a cell at the end of a bunch of columns that will contain a button or hyperlink or checkbox that will tell the sheet to copy that whole row into another tab.
My first thought was to create a button in each row, but according to this question here, there is no way to anchor a button into a row and thus all information about that row would be lost when a user clicks the button.
My second and very painful thought was to create a hyperlink that sends an API payload to a GoogleSheetAPI demon I have written that manages these sheets with the row information. The hyperlink would contain the row information in the URL encoding. That would tell the demon to copy that row and put it in the input row.
The second seems so hackey and I feel like I'm missing something. Can I make a hyperlink that calls on a macro or function which will pass the row number?
Say I have the string "1,2,3,4". Is it possible to paste that string into Google Spreadsheets in such a way that each of the comma-separated values goes into a different cell to the right of the selected one?
This is what the spreadsheet would look like after pasting.
Since the file is a CSV. Ensure it is saved with the .CSV extension and upload the file to google sheets.
You also have the option of opening it with Microsoft excel and then pasting the cell formatted text into the google sheet.
Also You can paste the comma separated values into the google sheet and then click the paste icon that appears below the cell and select the 'Split text into columns' Option
Enter into the spreadsheet
=SPLIT("1,2,3,4", ",")
No. If you try inserting any formula by overwriting the selected cell the data the formula needs will be overwritten, hence not be available to the formula.
You could use say:
=split(A1,",")
to obtain the results you want to the right of the cell with data in, but this would have to be placed to the right of the cell with data, not in it.
#Treyten's A would also achieve the result you seek except that it would not be to the right of the chosen cell (etc) but in the chosen cell (and to its right etc, assuming the usual LTR).
Similarly with #tks.tman's A. The contents spill out to the right but they do not start in a "cell to the right of the selected one" but in the selected one.
First select the cell on of your action and click Data
1st step
Now, select 'split text to column', it will name it a number
2nd step
now, again goto data and select split text to column open it will transfer every comma separated element into individual columns
3rd step