How to format a cell as email address
Someone sent me a spreadsheet with a column for email addresses. Only
some of the addresses are clickable links and I thought I'd do everyone a service and fix the cells that aren't formatted properly and sent the spreadsheet back out again. (It's a team list for one of my kids' sports teams.) But, when I go into format, I see lots of things like text, number, currency, special - but no email. How does one do this? I'm using Excel Office 2003, SP1, running on XP/Pro, SP2, with all the latest updates to both. Thanks in advance. -S- http://www.kbnj.com |
Steve Freides, One way is to select the cell you want to place an active e-mail address and go to InsertHyperlink in the dialog box select e-mail address (lower left hand corner in Excel 2002) type in your email address in the line provided. Normally, when I type in a line of text in a cell that looks like an email address Excel recognizes it as such and makes it a hyperlink. But that may be an option setting that I'm unaware of and just happen to have set correctly on my machine by luck. HTH -- Casey ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Casey's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=4545 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=469512 |
e-mail addresses should be hyperlinks, so select the cell containing the
non-clickable text, then click on the Hyperlink tool. The Inser Hyperlink dialog will appear so then click E-mail Address and fill in the details under the e-mail address input space (harder to describe than actually doing it!!) "Steve Freides" wrote: Someone sent me a spreadsheet with a column for email addresses. Only some of the addresses are clickable links and I thought I'd do everyone a service and fix the cells that aren't formatted properly and sent the spreadsheet back out again. (It's a team list for one of my kids' sports teams.) But, when I go into format, I see lots of things like text, number, currency, special - but no email. How does one do this? I'm using Excel Office 2003, SP1, running on XP/Pro, SP2, with all the latest updates to both. Thanks in advance. -S- http://www.kbnj.com |
Thank you both.
-S- http://www.kbnj.com "bigwheel" wrote in message ... e-mail addresses should be hyperlinks, so select the cell containing the non-clickable text, then click on the Hyperlink tool. The Inser Hyperlink dialog will appear so then click E-mail Address and fill in the details under the e-mail address input space (harder to describe than actually doing it!!) "Steve Freides" wrote: Someone sent me a spreadsheet with a column for email addresses. Only some of the addresses are clickable links and I thought I'd do everyone a service and fix the cells that aren't formatted properly and sent the spreadsheet back out again. (It's a team list for one of my kids' sports teams.) But, when I go into format, I see lots of things like text, number, currency, special - but no email. How does one do this? I'm using Excel Office 2003, SP1, running on XP/Pro, SP2, with all the latest updates to both. Thanks in advance. -S- http://www.kbnj.com |
Steve, you can also select the cell, press F2 and Enter and it will create
the hyperlink for you. -- Sincerely, Michael Colvin "Steve Freides" wrote: Thank you both. -S- http://www.kbnj.com "bigwheel" wrote in message ... e-mail addresses should be hyperlinks, so select the cell containing the non-clickable text, then click on the Hyperlink tool. The Inser Hyperlink dialog will appear so then click E-mail Address and fill in the details under the e-mail address input space (harder to describe than actually doing it!!) "Steve Freides" wrote: Someone sent me a spreadsheet with a column for email addresses. Only some of the addresses are clickable links and I thought I'd do everyone a service and fix the cells that aren't formatted properly and sent the spreadsheet back out again. (It's a team list for one of my kids' sports teams.) But, when I go into format, I see lots of things like text, number, currency, special - but no email. How does one do this? I'm using Excel Office 2003, SP1, running on XP/Pro, SP2, with all the latest updates to both. Thanks in advance. -S- http://www.kbnj.com |
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