Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated August 17, 2024)
This tip applies to Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, and Excel in Microsoft 365
Excel includes a very powerful feature which allows you to use drag-and-drop editing techniques to create a hyperlink. In order to take advantage of this feature, follow these steps:
If you cannot get these steps to work, there are two things to keep in mind. First, the two workbooks you are working with must have already been saved to disk. (This is necessary so that the hyperlink can have a filename to use. If the workbook isn't saved, there is no filename yet.) The second thing is that you must right click in step 4. If you don't—if you do a regular click—then the range you selected in step 2 is simply moved to where you release the mouse button in step 5.
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