Importing Hyperlinks from an excel spreadsheet

Mindbender 

I too have searched all over the web with little results. However I discovered a easy trick that worked for me like a charm. The trick is to use a TAB delimited text file where the columns match the number of columns in your SharePoint list. You then edit the list in Quick Edit then copy and paste from your TAB delimited text file. I used Notepad++ to edit the text file when I do the copy and paste. You can use Excel to generate the text file quickly but you will have to edit the file in Notepad++ before you do the copy and paste. The trick is with the URL column...of course because that it why this issue exists. In the TAB delimited text file the URL column will be formatted as such: ["URL text","Pretty Description"]. The bracket are just for emphasis and are not needed. The reason why you have to edit it from Excel is because it will save the URL column as """URL text"",""Pretty Description""" and on some of the URL entries it will put a TAB at the end of the URL and then the paste will fail because the number of column do not match.

Here is a picture of my list.

And here is a picture of my TAB delimited text file.

I did not go into great details here. Start by by playing with a simple two column list like I did and then expand to a bigger list as you figure out what works. Just remember the trick with the URL column and the rest of the text columns will just work.

I hope this helps people out there as much as it did me.