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How to Change Hyperlinks to Text Showing the URL Address in Excel Spreadsheet

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One of the good things about blogging is I’m always learning new things.  When I run into a problem I research ways to solve the problem.

Often, if I have an idea of something I’d like to try, I look around and figure out how to do it.  Even though my husband is a web guy and probably knows most of the answers, I do not like to bother him.

Unfortunately and fortunately, he is busy doing his own work for clients at MBSquared.  Today’s problem was figuring out how to change hyperlinks to text showing the URL address in Excel.   I wanted to convert a column with hyperlinks to only display the links.  I was searching for a way to pull out hyperlinked text from code and have only the URLs displayed.  Does that make sense?

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Excel – Extract Link From Cell

How to Change Hyperlinks to Text Showing the URL Address in Excel

Here’s what I was trying to do.  I use a Tailwind  to schedule my pins.  I love it, by the way.  Anyway, I wanted to pull out the most popular pins and create a spreadsheet with links (URLs displayed) to those pins.

My spreadsheet looked like this, but in order to repin those Pinterest pins in Tailwind, I need the actual URLs.  Yes, I could go one-by-one and extract the URL from each hyperlink (right-click – edit hyperlink – copy URL), but that would be very time-consuming.  I wanted Excel to convert the hyperlink to url.

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Luckily, I found a way to convert my column with hyperlinks to display the links in URL form.  Actually, even better, this will extract a URL from a hyperlink and display it in the column beside it.  This little macro code will do all of the tedious work for you and convert every single hyperlink to URL text at the same time!  It lets excel show hyperlink url easily.

Tips for Spreadsheets and Excel – Extract Link From Cell

Directions on How to Change Hyperlinks to Text Showing the URL

First, once your column is selected, in your Excel workbook, go to Tools – Macro – Visual Basic Editor.

Extract a URL from a Hyperlink and Display only the URL Address step 1

Next, once you are in the Visual Basic Editor, go to Insert – Module.

Extract a URL from a Hyperlink and Display only the URL Address step 2 insert module

Then, copy this text into the editor:

Sub ExtractHL()
Dim HL As Hyperlink
For Each HL In ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks
HL.Range.Offset(0, 1).Value = HL.Address
Next
End Sub

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Finally, run the program by pressing F5 on your keyboard.  Now, you have a separate column that converted your hyperlinks into URL addresses.

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Yay! You successfully Changed Hyperlinks to Text Showing the URL Address in Excel!   

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