Copy the URL of the Hyperlink

[Randy]

Greetings.
The function I want to perform is to copy the URL of the
hyperlink from one cell and place the actual URL into a
new cell. Such as having the cell with the name of the
link in cell A1 of "Microsoft" and B1 to
be "Http://www.microsoft.com".

I can do this one at a time using copy hyperlink but I
have 4000 lines to process and it will take forever
without some programming or other shortcut.

TIA
Randy
(Feel free to email me)

 

[Dave Peterson]

One way to extract those URL's from a hyperlink created via Insert|Hyperlink
is with a userdefinedfunction.

Here's one that may help:

Option Explicit
Function GetURL(Rng As Range) As String
Application.Volatile

Set Rng = Rng(1)

If Rng.Hyperlinks.Count = 0 Then
GetURL = ""
Else
GetURL = Rng.Hyperlinks(1).Address
End If
End Function

So if you had a hyperlink in A1, you could put =getURL(a1) in that adjacent
cell.

Be aware that if you change the hyperlink, then this formula cell won't change
until your workbook calculates.

If you're new to macros, you may want to read David McRitchie's intro at:
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/getstarted.htm

Short course:

Open your workbook.
Hit alt-f11 to get to the VBE (where macros/UDF's live)
hit ctrl-R to view the project explorer
Find your workbook.
should look like: VBAProject (yourfilename.xls)

right click on the project name
Insert, then Module
You should see the code window pop up on the right hand side

Paste the code in there.

Now go back to excel.
Into a test cell and type:
=getURL(a1)