{"id":9953,"date":"2019-10-01T12:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T10:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/?p=9953"},"modified":"2024-04-06T19:47:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T17:47:55","slug":"hyperlink-formula-in-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/hyperlink-formula-in-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"HYPERLINK Formula in Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What does it do?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Creates a shortcut to a webpage, <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/free-excel-templates-and-spreadsheets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"spreadsheet\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">spreadsheet<\/a> reference, or a file in the hard drive<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Formula breakdown:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>=HYPERLINK(<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">link_location<\/span>, <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">[friendly_name]<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What it means:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>=HYPERLINK(<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">link to a webpage \/ spreadsheet reference \/ hard drive file<\/span>, <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">[display name]<\/span>)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Imagine you can create links in your Excel spreadsheet that either links to: <strong>website urls, other parts in your workbook, or even to a file in your hard drive.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/insert-hyperlink-in-excel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HYPERLINK Formula in Excel<\/a> lets you dynamically create these!<\/p>\n<p>I explain how you can do this below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"after-post-box\">\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LJrSFDBW6Ok?rel=0 \" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/MyExcelOnlinecomtutorials?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignmiddle wp-image-111468 size-full\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1.yt_.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"line-two\"><a class=\"IRPP_minimalist icon-download button small\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/HYPERLINK-FORMULA.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-leadbox=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/HYPERLINK-FORMULA.xlsx\" data-leadbox-id=\"147284833f72a2:12f08263ab46dc\"><span class=\"ctaText px-3 text-capitalize\">Download excel workbook<i class=\"fa fa-download\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"postTitle px-3\">HYPERLINK-FORMULA.xlsx<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"line-two\">\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>STEP 1:<\/strong><\/span> We need to <strong>enter the <i>HYPERLINK\u00a0<\/i>function in a blank cell<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">=HYPERLINK(<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"HYPERLINK Formula in Excel\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10106\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/HYPERLINK-FORMULA-01.jpg\" alt=\"HYPERLINK Formula in Excel\" width=\"667\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/HYPERLINK-FORMULA-01.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/HYPERLINK-FORMULA-01-300x66.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>STEP 2:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0The <b>HYPERLINK\u00a0<\/b>arguments:<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_57_1 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"scroll-to-download\">Free Practice Workbook<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/hyperlink-formula-in-excel\/#link_location\" title=\"link_location\">link_location<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/hyperlink-formula-in-excel\/#friendly_name\" title=\"friendly_name\">friendly_name<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"link_location\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em><strong>link_location<\/strong><\/em><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>What is the exact link location?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Select the cell containing the link location:<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">=HYPERLINK(<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">C9,<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"HYPERLINK Formula in Excel\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/HYPERLINK-FORMULA-02.jpg\" alt=\"HYPERLINK Formula in Excel\" width=\"672\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/HYPERLINK-FORMULA-02.jpg 672w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/HYPERLINK-FORMULA-02-300x67.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"friendly_name\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em><strong>friendly_name<\/strong><\/em><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>What will be the display name of the link?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Select the cell containing the display name. This gives your link a more presentable name:<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">=HYPERLINK(C9,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">D9)<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"HYPERLINK Formula in Excel\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/HYPERLINK-FORMULA-03.jpg\" alt=\"HYPERLINK Formula in Excel\" width=\"632\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/HYPERLINK-FORMULA-03.jpg 632w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/HYPERLINK-FORMULA-03-300x72.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Apply the same formula to the rest of the cells by dragging the lower right corner downwards.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"HYPERLINK Formula in Excel\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/HYPERLINK-FORMULA-04-1.jpg\" alt=\"HYPERLINK Formula in Excel\" width=\"627\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/HYPERLINK-FORMULA-04-1.jpg 627w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/HYPERLINK-FORMULA-04-1-300x67.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You now have your <strong>hyperlinks<\/strong> all ready to go!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"HYPERLINK Formula in Excel\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/HYPERLINK-FORMULA-05.jpg\" alt=\"HYPERLINK Formula in Excel\" width=\"644\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/HYPERLINK-FORMULA-05.jpg 644w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/HYPERLINK-FORMULA-05-300x78.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>How to Use the HYPERLINK Formula in Excel<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ebooks.myexcelonline.com\/products\/101-most-popular-excel-formulas-e-book\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10741\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/MyExcelOnline.com-Formulas-E-Book.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/MyExcelOnline.com-Formulas-E-Book.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/MyExcelOnline.com-Formulas-E-Book-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/MyExcelOnline.com-Formulas-E-Book-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/MyExcelOnline.com-Formulas-E-Book-768x402.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; What does it do? Creates a shortcut to a webpage, spreadsheet reference, or a file in the hard drive Formula breakdown: =HYPERLINK(link_location, [friendly_name]) What it means: =HYPERLINK(link to a webpage \/ spreadsheet reference \/ hard drive file, [display name]) Imagine you can create links in your Excel spreadsheet that either links to: website urls, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cos_headline_score":0,"cos_seo_score":0,"cos_headline_text":"HYPERLINK Formula in Excel","cos_headline_has_been_analyzed":false,"cos_last_analyzed_headline":[],"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[11,3,495],"tags":[142,496,79],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}