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Do you have a worksheet that has a bunch of e-mail addresses in it, as a series of hyperlinks? If so, you may be interested in a way to pull out those addresses and put them into cells as plain text. There are a few ways you can perform this task.
The first method is to remember that the hyperlinks for e-mail addresses all start with the text "mailto" followed by a colon. Thus, you can use a formula that will strip out the first part of the hyperlink. For instance, if the e-mail hyperlink is in cell A1, you can use this formula:
=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-7)
This checks the length of the cell contents, and then extracts all of it except the first seven characters, which is the "mailto:" portion. You could also use a formula that relies on the SUBSTITUTE function:
=SUBSTITUTE(A1,"mailto:","")
If you prefer, you can use a macro to do the conversion from hyperlink to text-only e-mail address. The following single-line macro is a user-defined function that returns the converted hyperlink:
Please Note:
This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016. If you are using an earlier version (Excel 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Excel, click here: 
Function ExtractEmailAddress(rCell As Range)
ExtractEmailAddress = _
Mid(rCell.Hyperlinks(1).Address, 8)
End Function
In order to use the macro, all you need to do is use the function in some cell of your worksheet, in this manner:
=ExtractEmailAddress(A1)
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2016-08-01 14:14:16
Mark Haywood
According to your article "Extracting E-mail Addresses from Hyperlinks" What if I added the email address by right clicking on the box and then typeing it behind the scenes. How can I extract it then into another column?
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