Can Excel (any version) be made to recognize/activate hyperlinks which
are embedded in other text in a cell?

For axemple, entering "http://www.a.com" by itself in a cell makes
Excel 2000 activate it as a hyperlink.

But entering "Some text http://www.a.com more text" does not activate
the embedded hyperlink. Can this be done (without scripting if
possible)?

Rick wrote:
But entering "Some text http://www.a.com more text" does not activate
the embedded hyperlink. Can this be done (without scripting if
possible)?


No.

You could enter a formula
=HYPERLINK("http://www.a.com","Some text http://www.a.com more text")

Bill Manville
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Thanks. That turns the whole cell into a single hyperlink, right? I was
hoping to be able to have multiple hyperlinks in a single cell,
embedded within a paragraph of text.

Actually, what I need is to import existing text with embedded
hyperlinks -- without hand-editing it if possible.

I tried it in Word as well. Strangely, Word recognizes and activates
multiple hyperlinks in a paragraph if you type the text manually, but
if you copy/paste it or import it the hyperlinks are not recognized.

Rick wrote:
That turns the whole cell into a single hyperlink, right? I was
hoping to be able to have multiple hyperlinks in a single cell,
embedded within a paragraph of text.


Excel does not have that ability.

Bill Manville
MVP - Microsoft Excel, Oxford, England
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