How to convert url text to clickable hyperlink in Excel?
Supposing you have multiple urls in your worksheet, but they are not linked, and now you need to convert all the unlinked urls to clickable hyperlinks, as following screenshots shown. Of course, you can double click them one by one to make them clickable, but this will be time consuming if there are lots of urls. How could you convert multiple unlinked urls to clickable hyperlinks automatically in Excel?
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Convert url text to clickable hyperlink with VBA code
It seems there is no other effective way to solve this problem in Excel except using the following VBA code.
1. Select the range of url text that you want to convert to clickable hyperlinks.
2. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
3. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following code in the Module Window.
Sub ConvertToHyperlinks()
'Updateby Extendoffice
Dim Rng As Range
Dim WorkRng As Range
On Error Resume Next
xTitleId = "KutoolsforExcel"
Set WorkRng = Application.Selection
Set WorkRng = Application.InputBox("Range", xTitleId, WorkRng.Address, Type:=8)
For Each Rng In WorkRng
Application.ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks.Add Rng, Rng.Value
Next
End Sub
4. Then press F5 key to run the code, a pop up dialog for you to select a range, then click OK, and the selected unlinked urls have been converted to the clickable hyperlinks. See screenshots:
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Convert url text to clickable hyperlink with Kutools for Excel
Maybe, the VBA code is some difficult for you, here, I can introduce you an multifunctional tool-Kutools for Excel, with its Convert Hyperlinks feature, you can quickly deal with the following operations:
- Extract actual addresses from hyperlinks;
- Convert url text to clickable hyperlink
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If you have installed Kutools for Excel, please do as follows:
1. Select the range of url text that you want to convert to clickable hyperlinks.
2. Click Kutools > Link > Convert Hyperlinks, see screenshot:
3. In the Convert Hyperlinks dialog box, select Cell contents replace hyperlinks addresses, and click button from Result range to specify a cell to put the result.
4. And then click OK, all of the selected plain text links have been converted to the clickable hyperlinks. See screenshot:
Notes:
1. If you want to put the actual addresses to the original range, please check Convert source range.
2. If the hyperlink is linked to current document, please check Hyperlinks is a place in this document option.
Click Convert Hyperlinks to know more about this feature.
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Demo: Convert url text to clickable hyperlink with Kutools for Excel
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