Comments on: Excel - Column of email addresses. How do I make each cell hyperlink to that email?

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:28:59 +0000

That's funny– when I type an email address in a cell in Excel, I can simply click on it and it does exactly as you're asking here– opens a new outlook message with the To: address already populated. I'm using Excel 2003. I wonder if the cells in your Col M are formatted differently (I believe there's some setting where the hyperlink isn't active) or if you have leading/trailing spaces or some kind of character stuck in there?
Try typing an email address somewhere else on the sheet (or a new workbook entirely) and see if it does the same thing, maybe?
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By: kokevi_t

kokevi_t — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:39:59 +0000

I'm not sure if 2003 automatically assigns hyperlinks to items it recognises as email addresses. You could try F2 and then Enter to see what it does. Otherwise you can run some VBA code to put the hyperlink into each cell:

Sub Email()

For i = 0 To 10

X = Range("M1").Offset(i, 0)
Y = "mailto:" & X

Range("m1").Offset(i, 0).Select
ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=Selection, Address:= _
Y, TextToDisplay:=X

Next i

End Sub

The code won't work with numbers or empty cells, so you could refine it a bit.
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