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This video will explain how to add hyperlinks to Google Spreadsheets.
When you paste a URL into a cell in Google Spreadsheets, it automatically becomes a hyperlink. However, if you want to add anchor text that you can click to navigate to the URL, you must use a formula.
- Click on the cell to which you would like to add a hyperlink.
- Enter this formula manually (don’t copy/paste): =HYPERLINK( “[URL]” ; “[anchor text]” ), replacing [URL] with the website you wish to navigate to and [anchor text] with the text you want to appear.
For example, typing in =HYPERLINK( “www.google.com” ; “Search Google” ) will create a hyperlink that looks like this: Search Google.
What if I have a list of number that represents a revisopn number and I wanted to create a hyper link to the the list of the revison number such that clicking on that number should take be to the associated description link of that revision?
Is it =HYPERLINK(CONCATENATE(“http://revision=”,C2,”.com”), C2)
Is there a way I can replace C2 with this ?
Hi Pooja – not sure if I understand your question correctly. If you could post a sample copy of your spreadsheet here (just the share link, make sure anyone with the link can edit) then I will be happy to take a look.
Hi!
How can I put links (not the long one) with different name? For example, the original URL to another link would go something like this: http://blablablablabla.html
So, instead of simply copying and pasting the long URL. I would like to ‘hyperlink’ it with the word: CLICK HERE or VISIT THIS WEBPAGE. I am using the ‘Edit Form’, the one with different themes that sort of looked like a survey form. I tried doing the steps mentioned above but the whole URL just kept showing up in the saved form.
What should I do? Thanks in advance.
Hey Roby,
Unfortunately the video above only applies to cells within Google Spreadsheets, not Forms. As far as I know, there is no way to insert a shortened hyperlink, as you described, into your Form. The only way to even insert a link is by typing the URL into the description field.
I’m sorry I couldn’t offer a solution, and I definitely share your frustration with this issue. There should definitely be a way to accomplish what you are looking for.
This does not work for me. I receive a parser error.
Hi Google Gooru,
I wanted to know, how can I place a hyperlink in Google spreadsheet which can open a doc or excel file saved on my local computer hard-disk.
Let me know.
Vimal,
To place a hyperlink to your Google Doc, you just copy and paste the URL from your Google Doc and place it into this formula (in place of Google.com in the sample). Docs are all stored on the internet and all have a link that you can post as a hyperlink on Google Spreadsheet.
However, you cannot post an Excel file as a hyperlink. You can convert the Excel Document into a Spreadsheet and then post the link to the Spreadsheet in the formula in this video.
Here is the sample formula from the video: =HYPERLINK( “www.google.com” ; “Search Google”)
Can I link within a google drive spreadsheet?
I want a 1 word text in column A that is a hyperlink into a celll within that file
Thanks!
JoAnne,
There is only one URL for each Spreadsheet, so you cannot link to a specific cell within that Spreadsheet. You can only link to another Spreadsheet. If you can tell me a bit more about what it is that you are trying to do, I might be able to help you further. In general though, adding a Hyperlink sends you to a different document, or website.
Can you hyperlink from one sheet to another sheet within the same spreadsheet?
Keith,
Yes, you can because each Spreadsheet has a different URL. Just substitute the URL of the spreadsheet you’d like to link to into the formula listed above. Note that when you press it, it will open it up a new tab.
-Gooru
Hi,
Can you give me an example of the formula.
My requirement is below
I have 4 few sheets totally, Main, Sheet1, Sheet 2, Sheet 3
In the first sheet, I have three rows (for eg, Test 1, Test 2, Test 3)
1. When I click the “Test 1″ it should take me to “Sheet 1″,
2. On Sheet 1, I have a link “Back to Main”, When I click it, it should come to “Main” Sheet.
Similarly for other sheets too. Can you help on this? Thanks
Regards,
Chandra
Hi I am wondering if links work within embeded spreadsheets? I created a spreadsheet with an image in a cell which is also a link, but when I goto the embded version of that sheet on my webpage, the link is null
any fixes?
Hi Jesse – if the website where you embedded the spreadsheet is public, could you share the URL with me? I’d like to take a look.
Thumbs up for this one.. I can’t get the hyperlinked image to work in the iframe.. works fine while in the spreadsheet, no reaction when embedded in the website.. any solutions?
Do you know of a way to add a mail link without showing the mailto code?
When I paste a link into a cell it creates the hyperlink that I want. BUT the dropdown, bubble/comment box displays “Go to link: http://… .pdf – Remove” The link is fine, I don’t want to remove it. And I no longer want to see this dropdown box b/c I’m ready to move on and it is covering the row below it. It is annoying. If I go out of the doc and come back in, it is gone – but I’m adding a lot of links, and don’t want to go out and come back into the doc. And I don’t want these little boxes continuously in the document. When I hit Esc it does not go away. Is there another button to press to take this box away?
Hey – Unfortunately I don’t believe there’s a way to change that behavior, and it’s definitely annoyed me before. I switched to using the arrow keys instead of the to navigate spreadsheets. You can just press the down arrow to go to the cell below that current one. Sorry I don’t have a better solution for you! happy new year
Hi.
Thanks for all of this wonderful advice. I was trying to make a home page with a table of contents to link to other spreadsheet pages within the spreadsheet. I used =hyperlink(“[page URL]“; “[name of page]“. A hyperlink comes up, but when I click on it, a new tab in my browser opens and it takes me to the home page I inserted the hyperlink on, not to the hyperlinked page.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Anne
Hey Anne- Make sure you are including the URL of the new sheet you want to link to, considering each sheet has a different URL. Hope that helps!
Hi there:
I have a question about inserting a link in a spreadsheet. I copied and pasted the above code a week ago into my spreadsheet and it worked. Today, I’m trying the same exact thing and the URL doesn’t turn into text. Even when I copied and pasted this: =HYPERLINK( “www.google.com” ; “Search Google” )
It didn’t work. I get this: #ERROR
Did google change something?
Hey Vanessa,
I’ve noticed that copy/pasting the above code produces the ‘Error’ message you are referencing. Rather than copying and pasting the text, try typing out the code yourself. That should take care of it.
Let me know if you have anymore questions!
It’s easy peasy in Excel – impossible in Google spreadsheets ? I have a .xls, the first 20 rows (screenful) of which lists a “table-of-contents” so-to-speak. On clicking one of these cells, the user is immediately transferred to the appropriate location within the same spreadsheet. Is this not possible in Google sites ?
How do you put multiple hyperlinks in the same cell? I have a list of about ten items, and they all must be hyperlinked and be in the same cell.
Nate,
Unfortunately it is not possible to put multiple hyperlinks into a single cell using Google Spreadsheets.
A possible workaround might be placing a hyperlink into the cell that links to another sheet. This sheet could contain your hyperlinks in separate cells.
Is there a way that google can generate the url based on information in other cells? For example I have a name in Column A1 that I want to be the anchor text and the long url in column B1. Is there a way that google spreadsheet and read those and combine them with a formula to make the url with the text from A1 and the website in B1 and put that link in C1?
Amber,
It sure can. Just use the same formula as described in the video, but instead of typing in the URL and Anchor Text, use A1 and B1. For example, your formula in C1 would look something like this:
=HYPERLINK(A1 ; B1)
This should provide the exact same result as the formula described in the video.
Hello!
Is there a way to view, in the spreadsheet, the content of the hyperlinks? I mean, other than clicking on the links. There used to be a gadget called ‘Show and Tell Content Player’ that was kind of like a Ui App that basically embedded the URL content in the spreadsheet. You could also click “Next Page” and scroll through viewing multiple links in the spreadsheet. Like this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArE5e4EQFYLodHgxNFlhOW81VnZ6SlFWdWZUNDljd3c#gid=5
But, Google is phasing out gadgets in spreadsheets. Looking for a way to recreate it.
I using a Google Spreadsheet and have a static IP with file servers on our network at work – I want to be able to paste a URL to files on our local fileserver – is there a way to do this in Google Spreadsheets?
Can I have in a cell 1
( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=)
cell 2
0Ar4asIOTSlNZdEprNTFnTW1yQUVTSGhiSHZfTTM4RkE
cell 3
#gid=0
and put it altogether? to make a URL so I can put in a new Key
Hi, how can I possible do a “mass” writing of :
=HYPERLINK( “www.url1.com” ; “My url’s name” )
=HYPERLINK( “www.url2.com” ; “My url’s name” )
Appreciate it
Is there a way to automate the GOTO link command so all URL’s in a google sheet can be opened with on command?
Hi,
I tried the formula you have and I keep getting error: Parse error
I tried the formula that google has in the functions menu. Their’s is a little different. Either way both gave me the same error.
Wondering if it’s me
Rob,
Make sure you type out the function yourself, rather than copying/pasting from this site. I’ve noticed that, while the function above is correct, it produces an error when pasted into a Google Spreadsheet.
I was wanting to put links in my spreadsheet that would open files on my Google Drive. I have a monthly budget spreadsheet that I created in Google Docs that has monthly information on multiple credit cards. What I would like to do is create a link for each account that would open that months statement that I have stored on my Google Drive. They are Adobe Acrobat files. Would that be possible?
Tom,
It sure would! When you open up your Adobe file, make sure that everyone you would want to view it is included in the sharing settings. Then, take the share link and use it as the URL in the hyperlink formula.
Let me know if you have any issues.
I find this really useful so thanks a lot!
Hi,
When I add hyperlink, it always opens that link in new tab. I want to open that in same tab. How can i achieve this?
Really helpful…. thanks!
Very helpful video, thank you GoogleGooru!!!!!
Hi there,
my question is and I hope you can help me. On mobile divece for example on a tablet if i open a google document in google drive (not from web browser), how can i insert a hyperlink to it.
If there is already a hiperlink in the document i can open it with the “follow link” function, but not able to create a new hyperlink just if I open google drive in a web browser.
Many thanx