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Issue with hyperlink formula when a space character is in the destination worksheet name
I'm using the following formula to create a hyperlink to another worksheet in the same workbook. The formula parses out the destination worksheet from another cell (A12 in the example below) using t...
- Hi Andrew,
Assuming your destination cell is A1, your hyperlink formula is:
=HYPERLINK("#'"&RIGHT(A12,
LEN(A12)-FIND("|",SUBSTITUTE(A12,"^","|",
LEN(A12)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A12,"^","")))))&"'!A1","Link")
To be safe, always enclose the Sheet Name in single quotes (') whether or not such Name includes a space.
Cheers!
Twifoo
Hello Andrew,
Please specify the value of A12 and the destination of your hyperlink. Note that the Sheet Name must be enclosed in single quotes (') whenever it includes a space.
Please specify the value of A12 and the destination of your hyperlink. Note that the Sheet Name must be enclosed in single quotes (') whenever it includes a space.
A12 is a formula. Below is the value:
Power^Smart-UPS - 6000VA - 208V to 208 - 4 OUTPUT / 1 INPUT - 6 RU^Cyberpower ^OL6KRT3UTAA^1^2014^8^2022^5652^0.03^7160^SH 110 Main
The destination worksheet is:
SH 110 Main
Thanks.
- Hi Andrew,
Assuming your destination cell is A1, your hyperlink formula is:
=HYPERLINK("#'"&RIGHT(A12,
LEN(A12)-FIND("|",SUBSTITUTE(A12,"^","|",
LEN(A12)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A12,"^","")))))&"'!A1","Link")
To be safe, always enclose the Sheet Name in single quotes (') whether or not such Name includes a space.
Cheers!
TwifooThanks Twifoo.
That's a clever implementation substituting the carat for the pipe to get the location of the last carat. But I'm wondering what does it get me beyond using the MID function to parse out the worksheet name? Just inserting the single quotes into my existing formula is shorter. Am I missing something?
PS. After your first post I tried using single quotes, but I put the second one after the exclamation mark instead of before. Doh!
This works too:
=HYPERLINK("#'"&MID($A12,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE($A12,"^",CHAR(1),11))+1,31)&"'!A1",MID($A12,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE($A12,"^",CHAR(1),11))+1,31))
- Your formula is shorter because 11, which is the last instance of the circumflex accent (^), is hard-coded. Thus, your formula is not dynamic. Conversely, my formula dynamically calculates such last instance.
Also, 31 is hard-coded in your formula but I won’t object to that because the maximum length of a Sheet Name is nonetheless 31 characters.