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Excel and the Internet 28
Inserting a hyperlink
You can create hyperlinks from cell text or graphic objects, such as shapes and pictures. To create a text
hyperlink, choose Insert ➪ Links ➪ Hyperlink (or press Ctrl+K). Excel responds with the Insert Hyperlink
dialog box, as shown in Figure 28.4.
FIGURE 28.4
Use the Insert Hyperlink dialog box to add hyperlinks to your Excel worksheets.
Select an icon in the Link To column that represents the type of hyperlink you want to create. Then, specify
the location for the file that you want to link to. The dialog box changes, depending on the icon selected. If
you like, click the Screen Tip button to provide some additional text that appears as a tool tip. Click OK,
and Excel creates the hyperlink in the active cell.
You can create hyperlinks to a file on your hard drive, a Web page on the Internet, a new document, or
a location in your current workbook. In addition, you can create a hyperlink that consists of an e-mail
address.
Figure 28.5 shows a worksheet that contains hyperlinks.
FIGURE 28.5
Some hyperlinks.
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