Change Text to Hyperlink (Excel 2002 (XP))

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I am looking for the easiest way to turn text in excel into a hyperlink.
1. Change list of e-mail addresses into hyperlinks
2. Change list of URLs into hyperlinks.

I think this could be done fairly easily by bringing the data into an Access table and then changing the table definition to make the field type a hyperlink, but it seems that there should be an easy way to do this right in Excel.

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The following macro will change all cells in the selection to e-mail links or hyperlinks.

Sub MakeLinks()
Dim oCell As Range
For Each oCell In Selection.Cells
If InStr(oCell.Value, “@”) Then
ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks.Add oCell, “mailto:” & oCell.Value
Else
ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks.Add oCell, “http://” & oCell.Value
End If
Next oCell
End Sub

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Thanks Hans. Perfect and elegant as usual.

I did find that the following formula works for the e-mail example:
=HYPERLINK(“mailto:”&O8,O8)

However, you end up stuck with two columns of data; the e-mail addresses and the hyperlinks. I couldn’t figure out a way to eliminate the formulas and just have the hyperlinked text.

Thanks again.

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