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johngallagher
Sep 20, 2023Copper Contributor
Hyperlink an excel cell to a word document in sharepoint as a new copy each time.
Hello, I am building a master excel sheet and am planning to link to individual word worksheets within sharepoint from different worksheet cells. I am going to distribute this to multiple "gro...
SvenSieverding
Sep 21, 2023Bronze Contributor
Hi johngallagher ,
you could create a new page and add a button to it.
Create the button url like this
https://<mytenant>.sharepoint.com/sites/<mysite>/_layouts/download.aspx?SourceUrl=<link to file> so for example
https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/mysite/_layouts/download.aspx?SourceUrl=https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/mysite/Documents/MyReport.xlsx
You will get something like this:
If you press the button, your Excel File will be downloaded by the user and not opened directly.
Best Regards,
Sven
- johngallagherSep 21, 2023Copper Contributor
SvenSieverding Thank you!