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Friendly Names for Hyperlink Formula Macros

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    Friendly Names for Hyperlink Formula Macros

    Hello all,

    I have an index of about 750 documents with each row being a different document and each column detailing different information about the document. The first column is the document number, which corresponds to the name of a pdf located on my server. I needed to insert hyperlinks to these documents, and did so with the following code I found on this forum:

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    This works, but does not look very neat on the page as there is no friendly name. I know that when you manually do a Hyperlink formula, you can insert a friendly name after a comma after the end of the Path name. I tried to do this here, with

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    But this gives me a an error saying "expected end of statement". Same when I tired for something simpler like "Hyperlink" as the friendly name.

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks in advance!

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    Re: Friendly Names for Hyperlink Formula Macros

    Try this format instead

    Anchor = Cell where link is placed
    Address = url or path to file
    TextToDisplay = Text showd, can be hardcoded or a cell reference value

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    Re: Friendly Names for Hyperlink Formula Macros

    The issue is that I need to be able to sort and resort the data based on different variables (date, type of document, etc.). So it needs to be a hyperlink formula that can shift with the data and not be anchored to a specific cell.

    But thanks for replying!

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    Re: Friendly Names for Hyperlink Formula Macros

    Thats no problem, if you create the hyperlinks then just make sure to get the hyperlink column in the sort range and it will match up!

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