Create a hyperlink within an Excel cell?

Question

Is it possible to create a hyperlink within an Excel cell which only uses a section of the cell text for the clickable link? I.E. would the below table mockup represent som

Answer 1

This isn't possible in Excel. Hyperlinks are associated with entire cells.

If you look at the documentation for the Excel hyperlink object, you can see that it's associated with a Range. If it were possible to associate hyperlinks with a span within the cell, the Hyperlink object would need to have an associated Range and Characters object.

Answer 2

I needed to link to a filename displayed in a cell, so here is what worked for me:

ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=Cells(row, column), Address:=file.Path, TextToDisplay:=file.Path

Answer 3

The above one liner was very helpful... since I'm new, I couldn't comment. So here is my variation of the above that takes each row on a worksheet and builds a URL from a value on the row.

CHGRow = 3
Worksheets("Page 1").Select
Cells(CHGRow, 1).Select

Do Until Application.CountA(ActiveCell.EntireRow) = 0

    URLVal = "https://our_url_here?some_parameter=" & Cells(CHGRow, cNumber)
    URLText = Cells(CHGRow, cNumber)
    ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=Cells(CHGRow, cURL), Address:=URLVal, TextToDisplay:=URLText

    CHGRow = CHGRow + 1
    Cells(CHGRow, 1).Select

Loop

Answer 4

I'd just make your one row into two rows, merge the cells in the columns you need to have it appear to be a single row and when you get to the cell that needs the hyperlink then you put the words on the top cell and the link in the cell below. It will look fine as a non-techy workaround.

Answer 5

After creating the hyperlink you could format the text in the cell so that only the words of interest are underlined/blue. The hyperlink will still work, but obviously you can still have only one link per cell, and clicking anywhere in the text will trigger the hyperlink.

For example:

Sub Tester()

    Dim rng As Range

    Set rng = ActiveSheet.Range("A1")

    rng.Parent.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=rng, Address:="", SubAddress:= _
        "Sheet1!A10", TextToDisplay:="this is long text"

    With rng.Font
        .ColorIndex = xlAutomatic
        .Underline = xlUnderlineStyleNone
    End With

    With rng.Characters(Start:=9, Length:=4).Font
        .Underline = xlUnderlineStyleSingle
        .Color = -4165632
    End With

End Sub