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 How to create clickable hyperlinks in pivot table?

Author Xiaoyang Last modified

You can easily click a hyperlink to link to its webpage in a worksheet, but if you create a pivot table which contains hyperlinks, the hyperlinks will not be clickable. Do you have any good ideas to solve this problem in Excel?

Create clickable hyperlinks in pivot table with VBA code

Create clickable hyperlinks in pivot table with VBA code

The hyperlinks don’t work in pivot table by default, but fortunately, you can create a VBA code to make the hyperlinks be clickable in pivot table.

1. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys, and it opens the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. Then choose your used worksheet from the left Project Explorer pane, double click it to open a Module, and then copy and paste following VBA code into the blank Module:

VBA code: Create clickable hyperlinks in pivot table

Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
'Update 20140814
If Target.Cells.Count <> 1 Then Exit Sub
On Error Resume Next
Application.ActiveWorkbook.FollowHyperlink Address:=CStr(Target.Value), NewWindow:=True
End Sub

the screenshot of using VBA code

3. Then save and close this code, go back to your worksheet, and now, when you click the hyperlink in your pivot table, the hyperlink will be activated and link to its webpage.

Note: This code is only available for the webpage links which begin with Http://.

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