Comments on: Creating Hyperlinks in Word and Excel Longer than 256 Characters http://www.technicallychris.com/2009/08/20/creating-hyperlinks-in-word-and-excel-longer-than-256-characters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=creating-hyperlinks-in-word-and-excel-longer-than-256-characters Technical and Personal Ramblings of a Bostonian Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:46:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Patrick http://www.technicallychris.com/2009/08/20/creating-hyperlinks-in-word-and-excel-longer-than-256-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-384 Patrick Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:24:21 +0000 http://www.technicallychris.com/?p=389#comment-384 Hi Chris, unfortunately Word and Excel 2003 cut the links at 512 characters, even using this workaround. Have you got another trick for me? I need to save links to reports within our Bugzilla-Clone and these Report URLs contain all the variables of the report. So they are very long. They range from 550 to 1000 characters. Any ideas? Kind Regards, Patrick Hi Chris,

unfortunately Word and Excel 2003 cut the links at 512 characters, even using this workaround. Have you got another trick for me?

I need to save links to reports within our Bugzilla-Clone and these Report URLs contain all the variables of the report. So they are very long. They range from 550 to 1000 characters.

Any ideas?

Kind Regards,
Patrick

]]> By: Johnjac http://www.technicallychris.com/2009/08/20/creating-hyperlinks-in-word-and-excel-longer-than-256-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-338 Johnjac Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:58:10 +0000 http://www.technicallychris.com/?p=389#comment-338 This work around doesn't seem to work for Work '08 for Mac OS. Anybody have any ideas? This work around doesn’t seem to work for Work ‘08 for Mac OS. Anybody have any ideas?

]]> By: Chris http://www.technicallychris.com/2009/08/20/creating-hyperlinks-in-word-and-excel-longer-than-256-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-321 Chris Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:57:01 +0000 http://www.technicallychris.com/?p=389#comment-321 <a href="#comment-319" rel="nofollow">@Michael</a> Hi Michael, thanks for commenting, and for testing it out with Powerpoint! I'm going to update my post to let folks know that you've tested this successfully. @Michael
Hi Michael, thanks for commenting, and for testing it out with Powerpoint! I’m going to update my post to let folks know that you’ve tested this successfully.

]]> By: Chris http://www.technicallychris.com/2009/08/20/creating-hyperlinks-in-word-and-excel-longer-than-256-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-320 Chris Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:56:15 +0000 http://www.technicallychris.com/?p=389#comment-320 <a href="#comment-315" rel="nofollow">@Craig</a> Hi Craig, unfortunately I don't think there's a way around the 256 character limit in the built-in HYPERLINK function, but depending on your needs we could create some VBA that would create the hyperlinks for you. Could you tell me a bit more about situation? If you'd prefer to take this offline, you can use the CONTACT CHRIS link at the top of my blog to shoot me a message. @Craig
Hi Craig, unfortunately I don’t think there’s a way around the 256 character limit in the built-in HYPERLINK function, but depending on your needs we could create some VBA that would create the hyperlinks for you. Could you tell me a bit more about situation? If you’d prefer to take this offline, you can use the CONTACT CHRIS link at the top of my blog to shoot me a message.

]]> By: Michael http://www.technicallychris.com/2009/08/20/creating-hyperlinks-in-word-and-excel-longer-than-256-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-319 Michael Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:08:20 +0000 http://www.technicallychris.com/?p=389#comment-319 Perfect for me, Chris. I needed a very long link to an InfoPath form in a Form Library in SharePoint (which passes the form server, where to save to, etc.) to appear as a "Click Here" on the last slide at the end of a PowerPoint show. Your method above won't work for me in PowerPoint, but if I go to Word first, paste the path, hit SPACE, then Edit the hyperlink to say "Click Here", I can then copy and paste the hyperlink into PowerPoint! Thank you so much! Perfect for me, Chris. I needed a very long link to an InfoPath form in a Form Library in SharePoint (which passes the form server, where to save to, etc.) to appear as a “Click Here” on the last slide at the end of a PowerPoint show. Your method above won’t work for me in PowerPoint, but if I go to Word first, paste the path, hit SPACE, then Edit the hyperlink to say “Click Here”, I can then copy and paste the hyperlink into PowerPoint! Thank you so much!

]]> By: Craig http://www.technicallychris.com/2009/08/20/creating-hyperlinks-in-word-and-excel-longer-than-256-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-315 Craig Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:48:38 +0000 http://www.technicallychris.com/?p=389#comment-315 Thanks for this, it was very useful. My problem is slightly more complex - the URL is dynamic so I can't paste it in. I don't suppose you have some clever tip to persuade excel to allow more than 255 characters in a hyperlink formula ? I've tried splitting the URL into subsections but the HYPERLINK formula stops at 255 with a value error no matter what. If you have any thoughts, it would be wonderful. I am grasping at straws here. Thanks for this, it was very useful. My problem is slightly more complex – the URL is dynamic so I can’t paste it in. I don’t suppose you have some clever tip to persuade excel to allow more than 255 characters in a hyperlink formula ? I’ve tried splitting the URL into subsections but the HYPERLINK formula stops at 255 with a value error no matter what. If you have any thoughts, it would be wonderful. I am grasping at straws here.

]]> By: jkd http://www.technicallychris.com/2009/08/20/creating-hyperlinks-in-word-and-excel-longer-than-256-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-313 jkd Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:20:59 +0000 http://www.technicallychris.com/?p=389#comment-313 This was exactly what I needed. Thanks! This was exactly what I needed. Thanks!

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