I have javascript function that copies a table from a webpage to an
Excel worksheet. This is supposed to be a multi-purpose function that
works on various different tables, and sometimes the tables have
hyperlinks in them.

I have my script doing Hyperlinks.Delete(), and that strips all the
hyperlinks out of the sheet quite well. The problem is that when the
hyperlinks are removed, any formatting that existed in those cells is
removed as well. Borders, colors, font info, wrapping, number
formatting: all gone.

I tried doing this:

if (objExcelApp.Selection.Hyperlinks.Count 0){
for (i = objExcelApp.Selection.Hyperlinks.Count; i 0; i--){
LinkCell = objExcelApp.Selection.Hyperlinks(i).Parent;
NumFmt = LinkCell.NumberFormat;
IsBold = LinkCell.Font.Bold;
IsItalic = LinkCell.Font.Italic;
IsWrap = LinkCell.WrapText;
hAlign = LinkCell.HorizontalAlignment;
vAlign = LinkCell.VerticalAlignment;

LinkCell.Hyperlinks.Delete();

LinkCell.NumberFormat = NumFmt;
LinkCell.Font.Bold = IsBold;
LinkCell.Font.Italic = IsItalic;
LinkCell.WrapText = IsWrap;
LinkCell.HorizontalAlignment = hAlign;
LinkCell.VerticalAlignment = vAlign;
}
}

And it works. It doesn't do the borders, because I haven't done that
yet, but the basic concept works.

And it takes forever and a day.

So I was hoping that someone might know some arcane method of removing
hyperlinks *without* killing the formatting in the process.

Thanks,
Lisa

I don't have a better way, but something that you might want to test.

Find a sacrificial cell.
copy the hyperlink cell to that cell
remove the hyperlink
copy|paste special|formats back

Clean up that sacrificial cell later.

(still a giant loop though.)

Or untested...
Insert a new worksheet
select all of the existing worksheet
copy
paste special|formats (to the new worksheet)
remove the links (all at once)

copy and paste|special back.

That might actually work.

(I didn't try it though. No sense both of us being disappointed!)





Lisa wrote:

I have javascript function that copies a table from a webpage to an
Excel worksheet. This is supposed to be a multi-purpose function that
works on various different tables, and sometimes the tables have
hyperlinks in them.

I have my script doing Hyperlinks.Delete(), and that strips all the
hyperlinks out of the sheet quite well. The problem is that when the
hyperlinks are removed, any formatting that existed in those cells is
removed as well. Borders, colors, font info, wrapping, number
formatting: all gone.

I tried doing this:

if (objExcelApp.Selection.Hyperlinks.Count 0){
for (i = objExcelApp.Selection.Hyperlinks.Count; i 0; i--){
LinkCell = objExcelApp.Selection.Hyperlinks(i).Parent;
NumFmt = LinkCell.NumberFormat;
IsBold = LinkCell.Font.Bold;
IsItalic = LinkCell.Font.Italic;
IsWrap = LinkCell.WrapText;
hAlign = LinkCell.HorizontalAlignment;
vAlign = LinkCell.VerticalAlignment;

LinkCell.Hyperlinks.Delete();

LinkCell.NumberFormat = NumFmt;
LinkCell.Font.Bold = IsBold;
LinkCell.Font.Italic = IsItalic;
LinkCell.WrapText = IsWrap;
LinkCell.HorizontalAlignment = hAlign;
LinkCell.VerticalAlignment = vAlign;
}
}

And it works. It doesn't do the borders, because I haven't done that
yet, but the basic concept works.

And it takes forever and a day.

So I was hoping that someone might know some arcane method of removing
hyperlinks *without* killing the formatting in the process.

Thanks,
Lisa

--

Dave Peterson

Seems following trick is working:
when you insert a dummy HYPERLINK FORMULA the style of the cell
remains "Hyperlink" and is not reset to Normal.

you loose the text formatting but the CELL formatting remains intact.

Sub Redo()
With ActiveCell
.Clear
.Hyperlinks.Add ActiveCell, "", "A1", , "CLICK ME"
.Font.Bold = True
.HorizontalAlignment = xlRight
.VerticalAlignment = xlTop
.Interior.ColorIndex = 3
.BorderAround , xlThick, xlColorIndexAutomatic, 7
End With
End Sub
Sub Remo()
Dim s$, b As Boolean, i As Boolean
With ActiveCell
s = .Hyperlinks(1).TextToDisplay
b = .Font.Bold
i = .Font.Italic
.Formula = "=HYPERLINK("""")"
.Value = s
.Font.Bold = b
.Font.Italic = i
End With
End Sub



--
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Dave Peterson wrote :

I don't have a better way, but something that you might want to test.

Find a sacrificial cell.
copy the hyperlink cell to that cell
remove the hyperlink
copy|paste special|formats back

Clean up that sacrificial cell later.

(still a giant loop though.)

Or untested...
Insert a new worksheet
select all of the existing worksheet
copy
paste special|formats (to the new worksheet)
remove the links (all at once)

copy and paste|special back.

That might actually work.

(I didn't try it though. No sense both of us being disappointed!)





Lisa wrote:

I have javascript function that copies a table from a webpage to an
Excel worksheet. This is supposed to be a multi-purpose function
that works on various different tables, and sometimes the tables
have hyperlinks in them.

I have my script doing Hyperlinks.Delete(), and that strips all the
hyperlinks out of the sheet quite well. The problem is that when
the hyperlinks are removed, any formatting that existed in those
cells is removed as well. Borders, colors, font info, wrapping,
number formatting: all gone.

I tried doing this:

if (objExcelApp.Selection.Hyperlinks.Count 0){
for (i = objExcelApp.Selection.Hyperlinks.Count; i 0; i--){
LinkCell = objExcelApp.Selection.Hyperlinks(i).Parent;
NumFmt = LinkCell.NumberFormat;
IsBold = LinkCell.Font.Bold;
IsItalic = LinkCell.Font.Italic;
IsWrap = LinkCell.WrapText;
hAlign = LinkCell.HorizontalAlignment;
vAlign = LinkCell.VerticalAlignment;

LinkCell.Hyperlinks.Delete();

LinkCell.NumberFormat = NumFmt;
LinkCell.Font.Bold = IsBold;
LinkCell.Font.Italic = IsItalic;
LinkCell.WrapText = IsWrap;
LinkCell.HorizontalAlignment = hAlign;
LinkCell.VerticalAlignment = vAlign;
}
}

And it works. It doesn't do the borders, because I haven't done
that yet, but the basic concept works.

And it takes forever and a day.

So I was hoping that someone might know some arcane method of
removing hyperlinks without killing the formatting in the process.

Thanks,
Lisa

Thanks, Dave. Actually, I did something similar, and it worked. The
PasteSpecial from the browser into Excel has to be a Worksheet
PasteSpecial. I'm not sure why. So I paste that in, then copy what
I've just pasted. I PasteSpecial it right underneath the first copy
-- twice. Once xlValues and once xlFormats. Then I delete the rows
that the first copy is in. What I'm left with has no hyperlinks, but
retains the values and formatting (including borders) of what I
started with.

It works perfectly, and it's fast. The only possible downside I can
see is that if I have a report that's longer than 32767 rows long, I
might run into trouble. But then, copying 32767 rows into the
clipboard will probably bring my computer to a crashing halt anyway,
so I probably don't have to worry about that. <grin

Thanks for your help,
Lisa



Dave Peterson wrote in message ...
I don't have a better way, but something that you might want to test.

Find a sacrificial cell.
copy the hyperlink cell to that cell
remove the hyperlink
copy|paste special|formats back

Clean up that sacrificial cell later.

(still a giant loop though.)

Or untested...
Insert a new worksheet
select all of the existing worksheet
copy
paste special|formats (to the new worksheet)
remove the links (all at once)

copy and paste|special back.

That might actually work.

(I didn't try it though. No sense both of us being disappointed!)





Lisa wrote:

I have javascript function that copies a table from a webpage to an
Excel worksheet. This is supposed to be a multi-purpose function that
works on various different tables, and sometimes the tables have
hyperlinks in them.

I have my script doing Hyperlinks.Delete(), and that strips all the
hyperlinks out of the sheet quite well. The problem is that when the
hyperlinks are removed, any formatting that existed in those cells is
removed as well. Borders, colors, font info, wrapping, number
formatting: all gone.

I tried doing this:

if (objExcelApp.Selection.Hyperlinks.Count 0){
for (i = objExcelApp.Selection.Hyperlinks.Count; i 0; i--){
LinkCell = objExcelApp.Selection.Hyperlinks(i).Parent;
NumFmt = LinkCell.NumberFormat;
IsBold = LinkCell.Font.Bold;
IsItalic = LinkCell.Font.Italic;
IsWrap = LinkCell.WrapText;
hAlign = LinkCell.HorizontalAlignment;
vAlign = LinkCell.VerticalAlignment;

LinkCell.Hyperlinks.Delete();

LinkCell.NumberFormat = NumFmt;
LinkCell.Font.Bold = IsBold;
LinkCell.Font.Italic = IsItalic;
LinkCell.WrapText = IsWrap;
LinkCell.HorizontalAlignment = hAlign;
LinkCell.VerticalAlignment = vAlign;
}
}

And it works. It doesn't do the borders, because I haven't done that
yet, but the basic concept works.

And it takes forever and a day.

So I was hoping that someone might know some arcane method of removing
hyperlinks *without* killing the formatting in the process.

Thanks,
Lisa

I didn't compare speed, but this is kind of what I thought would work ok:

Option Explicit
Sub testme1()

Dim fWks As Worksheet
Dim tWks As Worksheet

Set fWks = Worksheets("sheet1")
Set tWks = Worksheets.Add

Application.ScreenUpdating = False

fWks.Cells.Copy
tWks.Range("A1").PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteFormats

fWks.Hyperlinks.Delete

tWks.Cells.Copy
fWks.Range("a1").PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteFormats

With Application
.DisplayAlerts = False
tWks.Delete
.DisplayAlerts = True
.ScreenUpdating = True
End With

End Sub


I put about 30k hyperlinks in A1:A60000 and changed the format for the top few.

The routine worked ok for me, but it slowed down when it was deleting all 30k
hyperlinks.

Maybe a short test would be in order???



Lisa wrote:

Thanks, Dave. Actually, I did something similar, and it worked. The
PasteSpecial from the browser into Excel has to be a Worksheet
PasteSpecial. I'm not sure why. So I paste that in, then copy what
I've just pasted. I PasteSpecial it right underneath the first copy
-- twice. Once xlValues and once xlFormats. Then I delete the rows
that the first copy is in. What I'm left with has no hyperlinks, but
retains the values and formatting (including borders) of what I
started with.

It works perfectly, and it's fast. The only possible downside I can
see is that if I have a report that's longer than 32767 rows long, I
might run into trouble. But then, copying 32767 rows into the
clipboard will probably bring my computer to a crashing halt anyway,
so I probably don't have to worry about that. <grin

Thanks for your help,
Lisa

Dave Peterson wrote in message ...
I don't have a better way, but something that you might want to test.

Find a sacrificial cell.
copy the hyperlink cell to that cell
remove the hyperlink
copy|paste special|formats back

Clean up that sacrificial cell later.

(still a giant loop though.)

Or untested...
Insert a new worksheet
select all of the existing worksheet
copy
paste special|formats (to the new worksheet)
remove the links (all at once)

copy and paste|special back.

That might actually work.

(I didn't try it though. No sense both of us being disappointed!)





Lisa wrote:

I have javascript function that copies a table from a webpage to an
Excel worksheet. This is supposed to be a multi-purpose function that
works on various different tables, and sometimes the tables have
hyperlinks in them.

I have my script doing Hyperlinks.Delete(), and that strips all the
hyperlinks out of the sheet quite well. The problem is that when the
hyperlinks are removed, any formatting that existed in those cells is
removed as well. Borders, colors, font info, wrapping, number
formatting: all gone.

I tried doing this:

if (objExcelApp.Selection.Hyperlinks.Count 0){
for (i = objExcelApp.Selection.Hyperlinks.Count; i 0; i--){
LinkCell = objExcelApp.Selection.Hyperlinks(i).Parent;
NumFmt = LinkCell.NumberFormat;
IsBold = LinkCell.Font.Bold;
IsItalic = LinkCell.Font.Italic;
IsWrap = LinkCell.WrapText;
hAlign = LinkCell.HorizontalAlignment;
vAlign = LinkCell.VerticalAlignment;

LinkCell.Hyperlinks.Delete();

LinkCell.NumberFormat = NumFmt;
LinkCell.Font.Bold = IsBold;
LinkCell.Font.Italic = IsItalic;
LinkCell.WrapText = IsWrap;
LinkCell.HorizontalAlignment = hAlign;
LinkCell.VerticalAlignment = vAlign;
}
}

And it works. It doesn't do the borders, because I haven't done that
yet, but the basic concept works.

And it takes forever and a day.

So I was hoping that someone might know some arcane method of removing
hyperlinks *without* killing the formatting in the process.

Thanks,
Lisa

--

Dave Peterson