Excel / 06 Nov 2014
What
A quick article on if you want to extract the link from some text you have copied off the web and into an MS Excel document. How? Open up a new workbook. Get into VBA (Press Alt+F11) Insert a new module (Insert > Module) Copy and Paste the Excel user defined function belowSub ExtractHL() Dim HL As Hyperlink For Each HL...
Why
How
Open up a new workbook. Get into VBA (Press Alt+F11) Insert a new module (Insert > Module) Copy and Paste the Excel user defined function belowSub ExtractHL() Dim HL As Hyperlink For Each HL In ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks HL.Range.Offset(0, 1).Value = HL.Address Next End Sub Press F5 and click “Run” Get out of VBA (Press Al...
Sub ExtractHL()
Dim HL As Hyperlink
For Each HL In ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks
HL.Range.Offset(0, 1).Value = HL.Address
Next
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