Questions tagged [hyperlink]
Reference to data that can be followed, usually of a webpage, but can be within a document
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Search codes for finding bidirectional note cues in Microsoft Word
I'm working on an eBook in Microsoft Word (not the ideal method, I realize - but I'm having trouble finding comprehensive guidance on how to directly edit epub files quickly and efficiently).
I'm ...
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Excel hyperlink formula autodropdown needed
I need a solution that will enable me to auto-update links in the dropdown. The link contains the address to the workbook, which number should correspond to the given number considered in the row. If ...
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How can I keep Windows 10 from opening Microsoft Edge (rather than my default browser) when I click on hyperlinks in Windows dialog boxes?
Sometimes Windows dialog boxes contain hyperlinks. Here's an example. If I right-click on a PDF, select Properties, go to the Details tab, and select "Remove Properties and Personal Information&...
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Why does the Snap install of Firefox opens links in background on Ubuntu?
I'm on Ubuntu 22.04. Since a reinstallation of Firefox 128.0.2 (snap remove firefox ; snap install firefox) it opens links from other applications in the background.
When I click a link in Slack or ...
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How to make hyperlinks clickable in Bluefish text editor to open the URL in a web browser?
In the Bluefish text editor, how does one make hyperlinks (URLs) clickable so they open the URL in a web browser?
I've looked through all of the application's options, and skimmed the manual, and I'm ...
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Spreadsheet with hyperlinks to another sheet based on variable criteria
I am using Excel 2021 and have created a spreadsheet for a youth hockey league.
The information in column I is determined from a drop down box. I have corresponding worksheets for every division ...
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Word for Mac won't take pasted hyperlink
I've inserted hyperlinks into a Word document (on Mac) for years by pressing cmd-K and pasting in the buffer from cmd-V and suddenly it stopped working.
Same problem seems to exist pasting in the ...
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Add Link Reference in Excel using OneDrive
I have two workbooks, and I am trying to link the two files in Excel O365 in OneDrive.
I have had limited success doing the following command on my PC or directly on OneDrive. Placing this command in ...
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Difference between hypertext, hyperlink and hypermedia?
I have searched for the differences, but it has left me more confused than before.
From what I understand so far, hypertext is a text that can link to another resource and hyperlink is the actual link ...
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Switch to new page when I use ctrl+click in Firefox
When I use Ctrl+Click on a link in Firefox to open it in a new tab, I would like to automatically switch to that new tab. Is there any way this can be achieved? Thanks in advance!
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Hyperlinks cannot be opened in Google drive documents in Google Chrome
I am trying to open a hyperlink in a pdf file located in google drive (My browser is Google Chrome) but for some reason it does not allow me to open it. But If I try to open in an incognito window I ...
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How to modify field code to include sub-sub-sections and text in the text body?
Is there a way to cross-reference a section, chapter or heading in word with more than one sub section, e.g., Section 3.4.4.2?
I figured out how to include text within the hyperlink with this code (...
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Can a hyperlink in MS Word or Excel open in a non-default browser?
Environment: Windows 11, Office 2021 running on computer, not in "cloud".
My default browser is Firefox and I don't want to change that. But some websites are not compatible with Firefox, so ...
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Nested IF, returning cell value - might contain a hyperlink
Example - 'Main'!A2 - Nested if checking the value of 'main'!a1, return the value from 'data'!A2 (if it's contains a hyperlink-return the hyperlink).
Here is what I have:
=IF($E$2=1,HYPERLINK('Non ...
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Fast hyperlink creation inside word document
I have a Word document with hundred bookmarks. When I create a hyperlink to a bookmark inside the document, I have to choose which of the hundred bookmarks I want. Is there also a way to do this ...
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Windows shortcut that accepts hyperlinks dragged and dropped from a browser
I want to create a shortcut on my Windows 10 desktop or an area on the taskbar that would serve as a drop target for hyperlinks dragged from a web browser. For instance, I want to drag the icon to the ...
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Changing font of a hypertext pdf without messing up the hyperlinks
I have a pdf with hyperlinks, I can click on the footnotes popup and be taken to them, when I open the pdf to change font in word, the resulting pdf has the popups in blue still but they're not ...
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Outlook adds "file://" to link in message
When a folder path to a network drive is added as a link in an Outlook message, the receiver cannot click on the link and get to open directly the folder. This because Outlook is adding "file://&...
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When using a PowerPoint file located on dropbox, the hyperlink sometimes will give error 'Cannot open the specified file'
We have a number of PowerPoint files that our users use on Dropbox that have a number of hyperlinks in them that link to PDF files that reside in the same file as the PPT file is.
Most of the time, ...
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How to include a hyperlink when converting from Excel to Wiki-tables?
I use Excel to create tables that include a column of hyperlinked cells. Now I want to convert this data into Wiki-table format. If I use tab2wiki (https://magnustools.toolforge.org/tab2wiki.php), I ...
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Links to Network Shares not opening in Outlook for Desktop for some users
I've found a few of these questions but each thread has gone dead without a solution being found.
We have seen multiple cases in our organisation where users can't use shared network file paths. They ...
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Slide links turned into not working hyperlinks. How to turn the hyperlinks back to slide links or make the hyperlinks work?
A Powerpoint presentation from 2009 that has working slide links was saved as a new file, in the same format "Microsoft PowerPoint 97-2003-Präsentation (.ppt)", and the slide links have ...
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Where does Firefox save images, by default?
Firefox has the prominent configurable option where to save files when I select the "Save Link As" action. However, this does not seem to apply to images I want to download by right-clicking ...
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Clicking the cross-reference sends me to the wrong place (below the caption instead of above), how to fix this?
The setting for the position of figures' caption is "Below selected item", so Word knows that the figure is above the caption.
However when I click on the cross reference I am sent in the ...
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How can we explain this very weird behaviour with file:/// URI hyperlinks in documents on MacOS?
It is useful to be able to create a hyperlink within MacOS text documents that link to other text documents on the same drive of the same computer.
Within Bean, the free Mac word-processor I use, I ...
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Scaling a PDF using Adobe Acrobat's preflight fixup doesn't scale document links with it
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I've got a LaTeX document (example below) which has been typeset at 1.7x A4-paper size (its final size is 357mm x 504.9mm). However, I still want my final document to be A4-paper sized.
To ...
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Insert URLs in plaintext after each hyperlink in MS Word using VBA
I would like to automatically insert the URL for each hyperlink in a word document beside the linked text.
For example instead of having:
my hyperlinked text
It should be:
my hyperlinked text (https://...
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AutoHotKey dropdown list which opens links on ME
Trying to create AutoHotKey with drop down list to open internet links (for company). As I created, noticed errors and mistake, that I cannot fix it.
First it runs whole script and I have around 80 ...
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Prevent Zoom.us pop up "Get an app for 'zoommtg' link"
Every time I join a Zoom meeting, this pops up. (Get an app to open this 'zoommtg' link
I don't want to install the Zoom app but always join from the web browser.
Can I prevent this window pop up?
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How do I open Chrome from Excel?
How do I open Chrome using a specified "user profile" from Excel?
For example. I have an Excel spreadsheet with many links such as:
C:\Users\User\Desktop\File1.txt
C:\Users\User\Desktop\...
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file hyperlink not working under tmux
When using tmux hyperlink feature does not work.
For example:
ls --hyperlink *.pdf
list .pdf files and provide a link to click and open when using under terminal emulator, but fails when using tmux. ...
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Auto-generate page numbers next to hyperlinks for printing
I have a large (780 page) document which contains a huge number of hyperlinks. These work fine when reading electronically, but this is ultimately going to be printed. I'd like to turn the ...
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Can I create an external http link to a section of a Word document shared on OneDrive?
I know how to share a URL to a Word document that's shared via OneDrive. I also know how to create a bookmark to link to a section of the document from another location within that document.
I want to ...
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How to open an additional hyperlink (word document on local intranet) and bring it to front?
I have excel sheet with hyperlinks to my local intranet network files.
The address of hyperlinks is like this: http://maxapp.local:90/allhelipa.doc
The problem:
If there is already an opened word ...
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How does MS Word/Excel/etc. change the color of visited hyperlinks? [closed]
My question is related to these two:
What is the style used for visited hyperlink in MS Word?
How can I prevent followed hyperlinks from changing color?
I do NOT want to know how to avoid that the ...
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excel how make hyperlink to constant cell reference
I have several sections within one sheet. For example rows 100 through 250 could be one section. Rows are often added or removed within each section. So this example section could become 100 through ...
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Excel online: link to specific row or cell
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I would like to create a link that opens an Excel sheet in Excel online at a specified row or cell to help the user to find a specific entry in several thousand rows without filtering, searching ...
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Excel - list comments then hyperlink to original comments
I used the code listed in this post below including one extra line in comment within the same post to add the hyperlink. However, the hyperlink only works when the tab name has no space in it (i.e., ...
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Excel Hyperlink Function not Feature tooltip
Good morning,
I use Pentaho Report Designer for writing reports. I can make tooltips for PDF and HTML reports. I have found a way to pass the hyperlink function (=hyperlink(link_location,[...
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Excel - hyperlink formula referencing cells on another worksheet increasing by 10 rows
In my workbook, I have two worksheets that I link information between - WS1 and WS2.
On WS2 in column A - I have hyperlinks referring to specific cells in column C of WS1.
How do I write a hyperlink ...
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How do I change the color and remove the underline of all hyperlinks in a Word document *without* changing the font, italization, etc.?
I have a very long document (a book) that I wrote collaboratively in Google Docs. Bringing it into Word, this great explanation gets me most of the way to where I want to go. But it strips out the ...
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Share a link to a script in Microsoft Edge
Edge has a Share option in the Right-click context menu, but the menu is very limited compared to the share menus on other platforms (e.g. iOS and Android).
Is there a way to have something like this?
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Excel =NOW() displaying date serial number, instead of date/time, in =HYPERLINK to generate email
I have a =HYPERLINK() formula in Excel to generate an email, based on the contents of cells for "To:", "Subject:", and "Body:" fields.
Subject: cell that contains =NOW() ...
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Preserving the links between files when exporting multiple powerpoint files to PDF files
I have a presentation with many rich slides (about 150) and many internal links to navigate between the slides. The internal links are preserved when exporting the file to PDF (I provide the ...
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Add hyperlink to hidden bookmark in MS Word
I am manually assembling a list of figures for a large Word document. I originally used the "Table of Figures" feature to generate this automatically from figure captions, but I found that I ...
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Word 365 hyperlinks open in wrong program or don't open
I have some Word files with hyperlinks to local .html, .pdf, .txt, .jpg, etc. files. On some machines, when I ctrl-click on the links to .html or .pdf files, Word tries to open them with another ...
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HYPERLINK - Reference a cell containing named range
I have a recipe book spreadsheet with a navigation bar to different categories (ex. PREP or HOT etc.). When Selecting PREP, a second list appears with all of the prep items. The user clicks on the ...
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How to manage customized names of excel cells?
In order to create hyperlinks within an excel sheet, I've to give the target cell a custom name, which will change its default name (i.e. B12) to the new name I defined (i.e. B12 = Anchor1). So, when ...
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External links not opening in Google Chrome
I'm running in Windows 10 Pro. Chrome is my default browser.
When I click on the Chrome icon in my taskbar to open it, and then click on any external URL link, for example a link in a Microsoft Teams ...
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Link to a specific Microsoft 365 Excel sheet
Can I construct a link from a website to a specific sheet (called Admin) or a named range (called Status) in a workbook originally created by Microsoft 365 Forms in my account?
I have a share link ...
