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RayZ1965

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Jul 23, 2020

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Excel Hyperlink to PDF

Dear Excel 365 Users, I am working on a project and the folder containing Excel and PDFs are saved to my local drive (laptop), since in prior Office version preserve the links and spreadsheet to ...

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harveer singh
Jul 27, 2020
Hey RayZ1965 ,

I just tested the same approach you used to follow, as long as you zip the folder and the linked pdf files are present in the folder it does seem to work, It could be an issue with office applications on your system the way links are being treated. A better approach would be to simply embed the file in excel as object, like in the article i shared above, that does increase the excel file size but at the same time saves you the hassle of sending out the entire folder.

harveer singh

Iron Contributor

Jul 26, 2020

Hey RayZ1965 ,

Am a bit unsure about how you are doing this, but since you plan to share the document out to your team and you are embedding local links from your computer, wouldn't that cause an issue? If it fits your needs you can try embedding the pdf documents as objects in excel.

Ref: https://trumpexcel.com/embed-pdf-file-excel/

Thanks