Excel includes a very powerful feature which allows you to use drag-and-drop editing techniques to create a hyperlink. In order to take advantage of this feature, follow these steps:
There is a caveat to understand about these steps: The drag-and-drop approach will work only if you are working with two instances of Excel open at the same time. If, in step 1, you simply display two workbooks by using Arrange from the Window menu, drag-and-drop won't work. Instead, you need to open one workbook in Excel and then open Excel a second time with the second workbook. Then the steps will work just fine.
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2016-02-20 17:04:00
MWilson
I use the hyperlink feature frequently between excel to excel and excel to word files.
However I find that using the standard copy and paste special approach in all cases is far more consistent and manageable.
2016-02-20 09:05:08
Ryan
I could not get this to work. How do you get both instances of Excel visible on the screen at the same time?
Also, when I hovered my mouse over the selected are I just had the plus sign, not an arrow.
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