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JonathanAlison
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Nov 20, 2019

Excel sheet hyperlinks linked to a server that's changing locations

Hi,

 

I am creating an Excel sheet which is going to have numerous links to drawings.  If the drawings were going to be hosted on one particular server I would just statically map the link for each drawing back to the server.  Since in our case our shared space sometimes switches to another server is there a way to extract the server location based on where the excel index file is stored then append the sub-directories to that to form the link to the drawings?

 

Jon

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  • SergeiBaklan's avatar
    SergeiBaklan
    Diamond Contributor

    JonathanAlison 

    You may use =CELL("filename") which returns the text with full path of Excel file location, parse it to extract root directory or server name, add subdirectories and combine in HYPERLINK.

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