A dashboard to visualize this FIFA worldcup [guest post]

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This is a guest post by Krishna, a football lover & one of our readers. He is also a student of Chandoo.org online VBA classes.

The wait for lifting the most valued priced in football for Germans was finally over. For a football fan, world cup is best time that is scheduled every four years and that if your favorite team lifting the trophy is like your crush is going on a date with you. 🙂

A sneak-peek at the final dashboard

Here is the final dashboard (it has more functionality than depicted). Click on it to enlarge.

FIFA 2014 Worldcup Excel dashboard

Download the dashboard workbook

Click here to download the workbook. Refer to it while reading this article for most benefit.

How it all began…?

So, after the world cup, I have thought to analyze this tournament using excel. And also Chandoo’s podcast session 13 made me more excited to start on this.
I have started the by searching for information over net and thanks to FIFA for having all the information at one place.

FIFA.com website snapshot. It provided me all the necessary data

1. Planning of dashboard

I have made some dashboards and I think one of the essential steps to do is to plan what all needs to be represented in our dashboard. Having a checklist helps me to focus more on making it more interactive and creative rather than digging out for the data. In this dashboard, I wanted to show analysis of individual teams, matches played, and comparison of teams. However, I have added the top performers of World Cup in later stages.

2. Collecting data

Having all the data on single site is great, however exporting to excel might seem a bit cumbersome because of formatting issues. So, it’s better to use PowerQuery (a Microsoft add-in) to extract the data from sites. (I came to know about PowerQuery, PowerView and PowerPivot though Chandoo podcast session 3, an interview with Mike Alexander). This provides us the data in tabular form and that saves a lot of time in formatting, especially when you copy from web.

I used Power Query to import & polish the data

And this is how the power query imported table looked like

Once, I have the data for goals scored, I have collected data for other parameters as well and the stats are matched for the respective matches between the teams using Index-Match.

Now, we have the data related to matches played between the teams.

Similarly collect data for the teams. (FIFA.com has huge resource of information collected for this world cup)

3. What makes a team

Now, we need to make the right graphs for data representation.

For the first part of the dashboard (performance by teams) there are four areas that I wanted to show independently. I was tired of using the form controls. So, I have used the select cells control which requires a small macro and some form of conditional formatting to do the magic. For more on this technique refer to Interactive Sales Chart tutorial.

Now for the country selected there should be a flag. Here I have named all the flags with abbreviation of each country. A macro code is used to select the country flag which is the ‘Flag’ (selected cell) cell.

Flags of the teams in a range of cells

Scatter plot in the dashboard

The chart on the right is scattered plot, where the data points are selected as per the categories selected in the drop-down. I have used Index, Match and Choose functions to select the data points for the all the teams. The pic below is for the “Dribble into penalty area” that is under “Attack”.

Scatter plot - Dribble into penalty area - how this is made
INDEX($E$2:$AR$34,MATCH($AZ3,$E$2:$E$34,0),MATCH(CHOOSE($AW$16, $AU$15,$AU$16,$AU$17,$AU$18,$AU$19,$AU$20), $E$2:$AR$2,0))

Which is

INDEX($E$2:$AR$34,MATCH($AZ3,$E$2:$E$34,0),MATCH(CHOOSE($AW$16, $AU$15,$AU$16,$AU$17,$AU$18,$AU$19,$AU$20), $E$2:$AR$2,0))
INDEX($E$2:$AR$34,MATCH(Germany, Teams selected,0), MATCH(Dribble in to penalty area, row headers,0))
INDEX(Data table,1st row,19th column) = 28

Similarly the data points required for the graph are populated.

Dribble formula explained

Now, for finishing, add a small box that gives few details about the team. Here, we need to accommodate all the data in the box that can be done using CONCATENATE or just simply use “&”

Team details box in the dashboard

For e.g.,

=”Team: “&linkedCellFlag &CHAR(10) &”Stage: ” &INDEX($E$3:$F$34,MATCH(linkedCellFlag,$E$3:$E$34,0),2)

linkedCellFlag :named range for the selected team and Char(10) is required to provide ample space to goto next line.

The output will be (if I selected Germany):

Team: Germany
Stage: Winners

And similarly use & to add the data into the cells

So putting all together the final output is (yes I am a bot bad in choosing the right color scheme)

FIFA 2014 Worldcup Excel dashboard

4. Match vs. Match ()

So now moving on to the next phase of the dashboard, the analysis of matches played.

Here, when I select two teams, say, Germany vs. Argentina, the match stats for corresponding teams must come up. Here, there are two things that we need to check:

  • When I select Germany as my first team, I need to select all the teams against whom Germany played in this World Cup
  • When selecting the match like GER vs. ARG, we need to have the same result even though I have chosen ARG vs. GER

To solve these two situations I have used the following method:

  1. Make a matrix of the teams played against every other teams as shown below. I have sorted the teams based on groups and using IF,MATCH, IFERROR populate the array as shown below

Match vs. MATCH() - matrix structure of team performance data

Formula used:

IFERROR(INDEX($AN$3:$AN$34,IF(AP$2=$AN3,” “, IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH(AP$2,GrpA,0)), MATCH(AP$2,$AO$2:$BT$2,0),””)),1),””)

For case of the selected cell, if, Brazil = Mexico, <<blank>>, If Brazil is part of Group A, then value of the team in header Row (AO2:BT2)

Similar procedure is followed for the other matches

For the drop down,

The index number (for eg., Brazil is the 1st team in the drop down bar, hence it has number 1) of the team selected and MOD (number,4) is evaluated. Corresponding teams are added from (i) (if the selected team is Spain, index number is 5, then teams are Chile, Australia and the Netherlands). Similar process is done for teams proceeded into later stages of the tournament is done.

Evaluation of the match

For the matches, when we select the teams, let say, Brazil vs. Croatia, here the home team is Brazil and away team in Croatia. So the index number assigned is “1-3”. I have defined the index number for each of the teams using CONCATENATE, INDEX, MATCH functions.
=CONCATENATE(MATCH(LEFT(F40,3), $AM$3:$AM$34,0),”-“,(MATCH(RIGHT(F40,3), $AM$3:$AM$34,0)))
F40= BRA-CRO
Hence, the formula becomes
CONCATENATE(MATCH(BRA),$AM$3:$AM$34,0),”-“,(MATCH(CRO),$AM$3:$AM$34,0)))
CONCATENATE(1,”-“,3)
Which gives 1-3

In case, I have selected to Croatia first and Brazil second, then I would have it as “3-1”, which doesn’t match with the list of matches. Hence in that case, we need to invert the number to “1-3”.

So finally, got the numbering right, which leaves us to lookup values for each category. So when I have seen initially, the list is too long. So I have decided to subgroup them.

Grouped cells uses to display match stats

On an average the match stats that most of us look are shots, goals, suspension, attacks, procession. However, showing many statistics is often too dangerous. So, I have adjusted to the top stats and sub stats can be viewed if one like to. For example, one wants to look in-depth about goals scored, total attacks and total passes then small box in Column AG (the one highlighted) can be used to hide the rows or show the rows accordingly. A small macro to hide/show rows is sufficient for the same.

5. Where do the teams stand

Now the third part to compare any two teams in the tournament and compare with tournament average. So this would be just a graph with all the data available. So I thought of animating the graph.

Before animation, an important thing to note is to check for the dimension of the variables we are analyzing. Since, all the data is coming on the same graph, plotting goals scored (e.g. 18) and total passes complete (e.g. 4200) in same would not help us. Hence, use total passes complete (in 100s) is to be checked. Similarly for other parameters.

For animation of the graph, I have done a similar as mentioned Chandoo in Excel VBA classes. (That course is really awesome. If you are looking to know more on excel VBA, I recommend you to join)

Team comparison chart

Top 5 teams

Top 5 teams comparison - FIFA'14 worldcup dashboard

And at last, the comparison of top 5 teams. This is done using INDEX,LARGE formula.

INDEX($E$3:$N$34,MATCH(LARGE($I$3:$I$34,1),$I$3:$I$34,0),1)

In I3:I34, there are values of total goals scored by a team. Here we get Germany

In similar way we can check out for the remaining by substituting 1 with other numbers.

The charts are animated in the similar way as done in the previous graph, although an additional dimension is added.

So this is it. Make final touches by specifying the appropriate hyperlinks to the each section and maintaining the formatting is essential.

Thanks Chandoo for encouraging me to write a guest post.

Added by Chandoo: Thank you Krishna

Many thanks to Krishna for sharing his dashboard file & explanation with all of us. Your work is a proof of how much we can accomplish with Excel.

If you like this article,please say thanks to Krishna.

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84 Responses to “Beam Me Up Scotty – Excel Hyperlinks”

  1. Rich says:

    I've just started using the formula version "=HYPERLINK("S:\Reserving\Management Judgment comments\check for MJ comments TOS 006 "&TEXT(month,"mmmm yyy")&".xls","MJ Comments")" and making it dynamic as some of the files that I use have a new name each month, or even each day.

  2. Dennis says:

    I have an Excel file called "Important Stuff'. Rather than use post it notes, I put information I need into this file. I create hyperlinks to the files I most reference; especially when I have many different versions. I then add comments in the cells next to the hyperlinks to tell me what the differences are. I rarely have to search as everything is right there in the one file.

  3. Gregory says:

    Great article! I'm bookmarking this for reference. Thanks for putting 'all you need to know about hyperlinks' in one place.

  4. Kevin says:

    Hyperlinks are great but "Hyperlinks for navigating a spreadsheet are lost if saved as a "pdf". Even if you are utilizing Adobe Writer 8.0.0"

  5. Patty says:

    Great info! I never thought of using hyperlinks in Excel. Mostly used them in Word, email and especially in Powerpoint.

  6. One cool thing I do is combine the hpyerlink function with a custom function I had help in building. I have a list of contractors from our Accounting Software (Quickbooks). We keep scanned copies of the 1099s in one folder. We can then download the data, which includes the vendors TaxPayer ID. The formula then checks for the file. If it exists, it provides a link to open it. If it doesn't it says so.

    Here is the custom function code:
    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Public Function MyFileExists(MyFilePath As String) As Boolean
    Dim objFSO As Object
    Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    MyFileExists = objFSO.FileExists(MyFilePath)
    Set objFSO = Nothing
    End Function
    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Bobby
    BobbyBluford.com

  7. Swapnil says:

    This is aewsome. I have been using hyperlink since a long time. I like this option as this helps me create my Dashboard like a webpage. Thanks for sharing this, I got more insight of this option. 🙂

  8. Cameron says:

    Bobby: Fantastic idea! What's amazing is as soon as I started reading 'scanned copies' in your post I was thinking 'hey that would be cool if you could just link to the files if and only if they exist'. Then you described how you do exactly that!
    Nice one.

  9. Jon says:

    I use hyperlinks to jump from one location in a tab to another. When I add rows, the hyperlink destination location does not reflect the rows I just inserted. Does anyone know a way around this?

  10. Hui... says:

    @All
    If you like playing pranks on you co-workers or friends here is a simple Excel Hyperlink prank.
    .
    Open a workbook, probably not an overly important one, and select a page then either Use Ctrl A twice or select all the cells by clicking in the area to the upper left of A1.
    Right click any cell and insert a Hyperlink, doesn't matter what its to, Another page, a Web Site or Send an Email
    close the file
    .
    When anybody opens the file and clicks anywhere on the page it will execute the Hyperlink, even on a blank cell, where the Hyperlink isn't shown
    This works particularly well on Blank worksheets
    .
    To remove right click anywhere on the page and Remove Hyperlinks

  11. JJ says:

    I have been wrestling hyperlinks to PDF files for over a year now, I can insert hyperlinks fine, and they look beautiful, but when click on them it comes up with "Cannot Open the Specified File". Does anyone know if this is because PDFs are unsupported by Excel or can other people get hyperlinks to PDFs working OK.
    My application is a register of approved capital expenditure projects and the link is to a PDF scan of the signed approved document.

    • V.Fitzsimmons says:

      Did you add ".pdf" when you created the link?

    • Mike Rizza says:

      I know this is an old comment, but we had the same problem too and the solution takes a little digging.

      1. Open Adobe Reader X
      2. Pick "Preferences" from the "Edit" menu
      3. Pick the "General" category on the left.
      4. Uncheck the "Enable Protected Mode at startup" box at the bottom.
      5. Close Adobe Reader and retry opening the PDF file from Excel and it should work now.

      Abobe Reader XI has a similar problem with a different error message. The settings in Reader XI seem to be Edit > Preferences > Security (Enhanced). At first I tried unchecking "Enable Protected Mode at startup" as this was the fix in Acrobat X. This did not work for me the first time. Then I tried unchecking "Enable Enhanced Security" and it started working. Then to test it, I re-checked both boxes... and it still works. I am not sure if other settings changed along the way, so I can't confirm the resolution other than "try this and see if it works!"

  12. Hui... says:

    @JJ
    What version of Excel are you using ?
    and
    What PDF Reader are you using ?
    I assume you are using the Link to an Existing File or Web Page dialog?
    Because that has worked as described for years without error

  13. JJ says:

    I am using excel 2007
    The PDF reader I am using is Adobe Reader X.
    So nothing really unusual.
    I am using the Insert Ribbon, then the Hyperlink Icon.
    I just had anohter play with it - it seems to work OK if the PDF file is on my C drive, but as soon as the PDF file is on a network drive it comes up with the error.

  14. mabs says:

    Dear Bobby i think your solution is very near to my requriment but can please explain in layman terms . I have a set of files in a folder let say a,b,c,d,e and i have a range of column in excel a1,b1,c1,d1,e1 .So if i click cell a1 file "a" should open. For range of 5 cells we can hyperlink each cell but if i have 100s of cells and files How can i apply hyperlink to all of them at once please explain

  15. Mark says:

    I'm using excel 2010 & adobe reader 10 - getting the same error "Cannot Open the Specified File” when linking to a file on a networked drive. File opens fine if it's on my PC.
    Hope this helps.

  16. Fiaz says:

    Say in cell Z1, I have the URL: http://www.microsoft.com

    And, I have a rectangle shape near A1... and I want it to have a hyperlink... and the URL for the hyperlink should be the URL in cell Z1.

    So, when someone clicking the Rect will be taken to http://www.microsoft.com

    When the URL is changed in cell Z1 to say http://www.yahoo.com

    Now, when clicking the Rect should take him to the new URL.

    How to achieve this? Thanks.

  17. Nanette says:

    I am using Excel 2007. I have a spreadsheet with hyperlinks that were created using formulas, such as =HYPERLINK( Link Location, Name).

    The hyperlinks work fine while I am in Excel, so I know they are active. However, when I use Acrobat 10 Pro to pdf the spreadsheet (and select the option to "Add Links") the Web links are no longer active.

    I imagine it's because Acrobat cannot handle the "behind the scenes" commands such as a formula, and then just uses the visible text in that particular cell.

    Has anyone found a work-a-round for this problem?

  18. Kevin says:

    The problem is that the hyperlinks in Excel are nothing more than cell references. However the cell disappear when saving as .pdf.

    In Powerpoint, the slide references can convert to pdf and continue to work.

  19. Brad says:

    I have a single page dashboard created, where I would like each of the graphs to serve as a hyperlink to the actual data that creates the graph.  The problem I'm running into is the URL for the hyperlink can be very long, depending on the data used to create the graph.  Does anyone know how to get around the 255 characters limit Excel has on URLs?  I used =Hyperlink(A1)&Hyperlink(A2) without Excel returning an error, but when I click on the link, it doesn't do anything.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    • Aaron Prosser says:

      Brad,
      I realize this comment is about 4 1/2 years old and you probably won't see this. But for anyone else who reads this, what about a URL shortening service like bitly, tinyurl, etc.?

  20. ABZ says:

    I need to use hyperlink in excel to brows a web page according to each row 
    of a table that it's data comes from a external source such a sql connection.
    but the text I have genarated from sql query "=hyperlink("Http://somthing.com","WebPage")"
    appearing just like above text if i edit i in sheet for example adding some space after of before text and accepting changes then link become a real link
    any kelp!
    I would be appreciate 

  21. Ben says:

    The simplest way to add web page links is:
    1. In your browser, copy the url
    2. Paste the url into a cell
    3. Press F2
    Done!

  22. mohanraj says:

    Hi Gents

    i don't have not much knowledge about hyper link.Could please any

    one can explain how hyper link has been working.

    • Hui... says:

      @Mohanraj

      A hyperlink is like a shortcut
      By selecti8ng the hyper link it takes you somewhere else

      Hyperlinks can:
      Take you some place else, like another sheet or workbook or open other file, they don't even have to be an Excel file

      Hyperlinks can be placed in cells, ranges or objects in Worksheets like Charts or Rectangles etc, all of which trigger the hyper link when you click them

      The post should tell you the rest of the story on how to use them

  23. Shafi says:

    Hi I am trying to insert an activex control from Developer tab and add hyperlink (web address) to it. Hyperlink button is not enabled in Excel 2010. The same option is available in Excel 2007. I am trying to this by C# code using this function.
    ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks.Add(ActiveXObject,"http:\\www.gmail.com",Type.Missing,"Screen Tip",Type.Missing);
    This code throws 'invalid argument' exception. I tried to use 'Application.Selection' for anchor as first argument with out any success.
    Any help is appreciated.

    Regards,

  24. Thanks with regard to providing these types of
    good information.

  25. sam says:

    Please tell any body..
    Can we add a shortcut key as address of a hyperlink in Excel so that when we click on that hyper link the shortcut key works.

  26. ST says:

    I have an excel sheet with quite a lot of hyperlinks to files and folders in the server. We will be implementing new servers as part of a project, which means the directory structure of the old server will be moved to the new one.
    Is there an easy way to keep the existing hyperlinks intact when moving to the new server? or do I have to edit each hyperlink and start all over again?
    Your help on this much appreciated.
    Cheers
    ST

  27. Mohammad Faizan says:

    useful information

  28. Fahad says:

    trying to hyperlink a cell with an object placed in shared folder.
    It only kinks the shared folder but not the object in it...help!!!

  29. Latoya Agcaoili says:

    I love the details on your websites. Thanks for your time!

  30. kanil says:

    Pl show me how to add a hypelink inside a text box, shape & image
    so when I click any of the above it directs to hyperlink destination
    Thanks

    kanil

  31. Scott says:

    I am trying to insert a .pdf file into an Excel spreadsheet. I have a large library of .pdf part drawings located on our server.
    Path = Z:\MachineShop\Administration\Customer Drawings\

    I would like the hyperlink to use a concatenated cell (C19) which contains =CONCATENATE(QUOTE!C1, QUOTE!D19)) QUOTE!C1 is the name of the file minus the .pdf suffix and QUOTE!D19 contains the .pdf suffix which is added to the part number to complete the file name. I would like the hyperlinked image to automatically load when a new value (part number) is entered into QUOTE!C1. Is this possible?

  32. Ken says:

    Trying to display only text if a parameter is/isn't found on a positive or negative IF response when using the IF and HYPERLINK functions together. If looking for a "No" value (positive) or if looking for a "Yes" value (negative); both are written correctly, to include the VBA macro, and what should drive a text-only response supplies a hyperlink that shouldn't be a hyperlink. It goes like this:

    With Table1:
    Positive No response:
    =IF($O2="No", "Missing", IF($O2="Yes", HYPERLINK(pathname(), "Open"), HYPERLINK(alternatepathname(), "Open")))

    Negative No response:
    =IF($O2="Yes", HYPERLINK(pathname(), "Open"), IF($O2="Yes", HYPERLINK(alternatepathname(), "Open"), "Missing"))

    Well, based on both responses, if Missing is displayed, it is a hyperlink, that points to nothing, instead of text. It looks like a flaw in Excel's coding. Is there a way to force just text to display?

    • Ken says:

      As soon as I posted this, I found the answer.

      The desired text-only response should still be writted with a HYPERLINK since one HYPERLINK function makes the entire cell followable regardless of the answer. In my case, I should write my formula like so:

      =IF($O2=”No”, HYPERLINK("", "Missing", IF($O2="Yes", HYPERLINK(pathname(), "Open"), HYPERLINK(alternatepathname(), "Open")))

      Having applied this, the hyperlink "look" still exists, but you can format over the cells. You don't have an active hyperlink, but you would still get the "pointer hand" like it were a hyperlink.

  33. Cary says:

    Hi,

    I have an issue with Excel 2013. I am trying to add Navigation buttons to move around my workbook and I can't. I link the hyperlink to the place I want and try clicking the newly placed button/hyperlink and it throws up this Error Box message: ''Your organisation's policies are preventing us from completing this action for you. For more information please contact helpdesk.

    Any ideas of what to check or change in Excel to be able to use hyperlinks? It was working a few days ago and now this nonsense!!

    Thanks.

  34. Ken says:

    Without having Excel in front of me, you may want to check a few things.

    File permissions in the folder your document is saved.

    Make sure it isn't read-only.

    If it is opened as an attachment, save it to your desktop first.

    If it is saved to a network folder, try saving to your desktop.

    See if you can add a trusted location for the document in Excel.

    If you are still prohibited from this functionality, your group policy setting applied to your machine are probably restricting this action. You may have to look into whether you really need this functionality.

  35. MF says:

    Hi All,
    I have a question:
    Is it possible to set hyperlink to an object?
    What I mean is to follow the link to an object, not to put on an object.
    For example, I have 10 pictures on my worksheets, I would like to set 10 hyperlinks on 10 cells (namely Pic 1, Pic 2, etc.) that will lead me to the corresponding pictures.
    Is that possible?
    Thanks in advance for your advice.
    Cheers, 🙂

    • Hui... says:

      @MF

      Yes,

      Right click on the item, which can be a chart, shape, cell and Add/Insert Hyperlink

      Set the location as a Range, Web address, external file etc

      • MF says:

        Hi Hui,
        Thanks for your quick response.
        However I want the link to be put on cell that will lead me to the object; not the other way.
        Is it possible?

    • Mike says:

      Why not put the pictures in a cell and link to the cell the picture is in?

      • MF says:

        Because the position of the object will be moved from time to time; and the picture is too big to be put into a single cell... 🙂

        • Mike says:

          I link to charts often, and just merge cells or link to the upper left corner.

          If it moves, that is trouble. Your best bet may be to run a macro to select it:

          Sub SelectPicture()
          Sheets("MyTab").Shapes("Picture 1").Select
          End Sub

  36. Adam says:

    I couldn't get the hyperlink formula to work and then found on some forums to put "#" before the sheet name..

    so =HYPERLINK("#SHEET1!A1","WHY IN THE WORLD DOES THIS WORK")

    does anyone know what the "#" does and why it is necessary?

    thanks

  37. Cindy says:

    Hi,

    I have one excel document with four worksheets. The first sheet has the hyperlinks to the other worksheets. The issue I have is when I click on the hyperlink, it takes me directly to the source I need, but i find it hard to locate where the hyperlink has taken me on the screen, due to many cells of information being on the screen. So I'm wondering is there anyway of highlighting the cell that the hyperlink takes me to (ie: the source) or highlighting the borders of the source once I jumped there.

  38. Angela says:

    Hi
    I have a workbook that I have created and am using a hyperlink to navigate to another page however I would like the info from the previous page NOT to save is there a way to do this?

  39. chandAN says:

    I am trying to create a hyperlink or formula that will generate an email but also include the file I am in as an attachment.

    • Hui... says:

      @Chandan
      I doubt that can all be done by a simple Hyperlink
      It could be done with a small piece of VBA Code

      I'd suggest using the search box at the top right of this page as I am pretty sure that has been answered before

  40. Mufliu says:

    Thank you for the excellent tutorial. Pls help me on how to create a link in excel to open a specific page in pdf. I have use several code to do this but still take me to page of the pdf file. How do I do this to jump to a specific page directly by clicking a link from excel. Thank

  41. Catherine says:

    I have an excel document with hyperlinks to a folder on my desktop. I now want to share the document, but am struggling to keep the hyperlinks working. When others open the file, I get an error that the internet site reports that the item requested cannot be found. Is there a work around that doesn't require re-hyperlinking all of the documents?

  42. Dave says:

    Hello,
    Well we use a particular software for document management made by humming bird software. This software is supposed to be a last version Archive save. That is not what it is used for at our work though it is used as an active directory. I was wondering if anyone has recent experience with hyperlinking between two or more documents in this type of storage.

  43. Jo says:

    Is there a hyperlinks for dummies? I need to link a pdf in an excel spreadsheet from my PC. I want to be able to email it to send it by email and be able to open spread sheet with the link on smart phone. Please help!

  44. Repeat the process of coloring and ironing until you like what
    you see.

  45. Rich Wheeler says:

    I have two mysteries in Excel 2010:

    1. I was given a spreadsheet in which numerous cells were formatted with hyperlinks and asked to extract the hyperlinks so they could be viewed directly in adjacent cells. I never found a function that could do that and didn't have months to take a class to learn to use VBA.

    2. When you type a URL into a cell and hit enter, Excel converts the formatting of that cell so that it becomes hyperlinked. I have a spreadsheet that stopped doing that. In fact, the Insert Hyperlink command has been disabled in the ribbon and in the right-click menu. (However, the =hyperlink("") function still works.) How did that happen, and how do I get the command back?

    I checked File > Options > Proofing. Nothing was out of the ordinary there.

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    How can you make the entire cell active? Normally only the text within the cell becomes active and the remaining white space only selects the cell. Example: if the cell columnwidth is say 30 but the hyperlink textToDisplay is "XYZ" then only "XYZ" will be the active portion and all the empty space within the cell is not.

    There is an exception. If the cell is formatted with an indention then the entire cell becomes active. For my purpose this exception can be used but I desire to have the cell text centered. But sometimes the cell width is just a fraction larger than the width of the text so indention would break the desired formatting. This is why I would like to have the entire cell hyperlink active and the textToDisplay centered without an indent.

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  57. Vasant K says:

    I tried the FoloowHyperlink worksheet event for a hyperlink text in a cell; attached some code to it, and it worked well. When I created a second hyperlink and attached some other code to this hyperlink in another cell, and clicked it, it worked but the result was not what I expected. The second hyperlink executed the code meant for the first hyperlink.
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