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opening links (to other workbooks) ? 1

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rb1957

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ok, dumba$$ I know, but ...

I've created a bunch of links to other workbooks within the same folder, and pasted into a s/sht (did this maybe a year ago).

Now I'm looking at the s/sht (with the links pasted in it). I can see the pasted link (in the cell contents).

But how do I open that link ?

thx

"Hoffen wir mal, dass alles gut geht !"
General Paulus, Nov 1942, outside Stalingrad after the launch of Operation Uranus.
 
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thx, but no joy ... CNTL left click, right click, double click ...

if I go to the Links menu, it want to add a link.

is it possible that the links have become broken ? No obvious way to "update" ?

"Hoffen wir mal, dass alles gut geht !"
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if you hover over the cell, does it show a file path for the hyperlink? it should; I just tried it here, Insert ribbon, Link, Insert Link, selected a file. When I left click on the link it opens the spreadsheet in Excel.
 
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Can you post an example workbook? ... I could, but would take too long to sanitize ...
posted a screen shot ... shows a cell contents as the link address (and cell displays the link value). I copied the link address into the file ('cause I don't trust these things !).

I remember setting up the links ... found the files needed to be in the same folder (PITA).
The cell contents show the link address, and display the linked value, but no amount of clicking will open the lin ?

The folder in question is a network folder, the address is still valid ('cause I can manually open the source).

"Hoffen wir mal, dass alles gut geht !"
General Paulus, Nov 1942, outside Stalingrad after the launch of Operation Uranus.
 
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In the Data tab menu, find "Workbook Links"
 
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the closest I get (with Excel ... IDK !?) is a "connections" tab. Ok, click "edit" and I get a list of links, which I can "open source" but this is a PITA.

I can't quickly open the source ??



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General Paulus, Nov 1942, outside Stalingrad after the launch of Operation Uranus.
 
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The simplest thing to do, I think, is to use an adjacent column and insert "=hyperlink(I34)" etc. which will create a hyperlink similar to what you might have gotten had you used the "Insert Link" toolbar command originally.

hyper_vw1n1h.png


Alternately, you could create a macro to copy the contents of each cell with a link and do a proper Insert Link



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Code: 
Sub Macro2()
'
' Macro2 Macro
'

'
    target = Range("A1").Value
    Range("B1").Select
    ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=Selection, Address:= _
        target, TextToDisplay:=target
End Sub

results in
hyper2_nzhkzk.png


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I've created a bunch of links to other workbooks within the same folder
Click to expand...

1. For what purpose? Just a reference or to access data?

2. If the latter, is this tabular data or data in a discrete cell?

3. In order to suggest a method other than a hyperlink, I'd need to understand the what and why of this/these link(s).

4. I've created data acquisition methods to get data from various data sources, given a set of 1 or more arguments. The routines for these methods/functions would reside in a Personal.xlsb hidden workbook that opens every time you open Excel and perform as any other spreadsheet function.

Skip,
[sub]
[glasses]Just traded in my OLD subtlety...
for a NUance![tongue][/sub]
 
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When you first open the file does it give you an option to enable or disable anything?

1) If the cell contains a formula that picks up a value from a cell or range in another workbook, that is not clickable to open that file.

2) If the cell contains text that happens to be a fully qualified file name it is just that, not a link.

3) If the cell contains text that was inserted as a link, it does just that. You can tell because the mouse pointer changes shape.

4) If the cell is contains the formrula =FormulaText(R1C1) then it is just a formul and not a clickable link.

Converting 2 to 3 requires one of the suggestions above

Question: did this ever work as desired?


 
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thx IR ... you put in more effort than I usually would !

@Skip, it's a table of MS ... the different work books to a bunch of calcs, I'm linking to the critical MS to make it easy to find.

@IFR ... the cell contents look like links, the cell value is the value at the specific cell. I have a memory of when I did this (a year ago) of checking things, and thought it opened the other workbook as expected.

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General Paulus, Nov 1942, outside Stalingrad after the launch of Operation Uranus.
 
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No worries; I figured the first approach was good enough for a one-off, but I was curious to know if it was possible to "fix" the links, which it looks like they can be, so copying the value of the cell and then doing "Insert Link" would fix the links without the extra column.

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If you make the links relative paths it helps to reduce the risk of broken links when things move around (this assumes all of the files are in a single folder and everything is moved together).

If all of your files are in C:\webtemp\foo
C:\webtemp\foo\data.xlsx
becomes relative path
.\data.xlsx

First create the link using the excel link tool, then edit the resulting pathname.
 
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ok, good idea, I'll look into it.

But the cell contents show the proper link, report the proper value, just clicking the link does nothing ?
when I'm sure it used to (and nothing's moved)

BTW, it is a network drive.

"Hoffen wir mal, dass alles gut geht !"
General Paulus, Nov 1942, outside Stalingrad after the launch of Operation Uranus.
 
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Since it's on a network drive, are you referencing mapped drive letters? If so, you might change those to the "\\network\" format.

<tg>

 
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But the cell contents show the proper link, report the proper value, just clicking the link does nothing ?
when I'm sure it used to (and nothing's moved)
Click to expand...

That's because it's just string data; it's not a link unless "Insert Link" was activated. The XML versions of the spreadsheet shows that the cell content includes an extra field that identifies as a hyperlink, which is distinct from the displayed contents, just like the Eng-Tips TGML hyperlinks allowing for a display being different from the actual link. So, in Excel, you have to have explicitly used "Insert Link" to get a clickable link.

<Cell ss:StyleID="s62" ss:HRef=" ss:Type="String">vs.
<Cell><Data ss:Type="String">
The former shows that the "Cell" has a hyperlink HRef, as well as the displayed "Data" string while the latter shows only. Note that ET's TGML took over the link strings above, so that's not Excel doing that.





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I'm pretty sure they were created by "insert links", and I copied the cell "string data" address to a different cell, and pasted as text (so I have the address).

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