{"id":69025,"date":"2025-09-07T08:13:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/69025\/excel-hyperlink-to-cell-in-another-worksheet\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T08:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:28:18","slug":"excel-hyperlink-to-cell-in-another-worksheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/69025\/excel-hyperlink-to-cell-in-another-worksheet\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel hyperlink to cell in another worksheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you work a lot with Excel and manage large amounts of data, you sometimes need a little navigation aid. Such an aid can be a hyperlink that jumps to another worksheet in the same Excel file and navigates to a specific Excel cell and also highlights this cell. This can save a lot of time, especially with large files with a lot of data, because you don&#8217;t have to search and scroll for a long time.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of content<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/69025\/excel-hyperlink-to-cell-in-another-worksheet\/#What_do_we_want_to_achieve\" >What do we want to achieve?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/69025\/excel-hyperlink-to-cell-in-another-worksheet\/#How_it_is_implemented\" >How it is implemented<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_do_we_want_to_achieve\"><\/span>What do we want to achieve?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>As you can see in the following example GIF animation, a link and a link text are inserted in the first worksheet called &#8220;<em>List<\/em>&#8220;. If you click on this link, you automatically jump to the other worksheet <em>&#8220;Performances&#8221;<\/em> and to a specific cell there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69027\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/excel-hyperlink-to-cell-on-another-spreadsheet-2.gif\" alt=\"Gif Animation that shows how the hyperlink to another spreadshet in excel works\" width=\"600\" height=\"447\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course, you can also use a <a href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/53044\/excel-shortcut-change-spreadsheet\/\">shortcut to switch to another worksheet<\/a>, but this does not offer the same convenience.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_it_is_implemented\"><\/span>How it is implemented<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Fortunately, Excel offers a suitable function for this, in addition to many other functions, such as <a title=\"search in an excel column from bottom to top, thus last searched entry is found first\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/25078\/excel-find-search-from-bottom-to-top-backwards-search\/\">backwards search<\/a>. To implement the scenario shown above, use the hyperlink function in Excel with a specific notation. The Excel function can be seen in the following image.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69029\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69029\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/excel-linking-to-another-spreadsheet.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of Excel with hyperlink function to navigate to another spreadsheet\" width=\"700\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/excel-linking-to-another-spreadsheet.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/excel-linking-to-another-spreadsheet-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hyperlink function to call up spreadsheet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Simply write in the relevant cell where the link should appear:<\/p>\n<pre>=HYPERLINK(\"[#]'NameTablesheet'!Cell\"; \"Linktext\")\r\nEx:\r\n=HYPERLINK(\"[#]'Performances'!A4\"; \"Performances 2\")<\/pre>\n<p>The first parameter of the Excel function contains the link target. In this case, in the special notation with the <strong>hash in square brackets <em>[#]<\/em><\/strong> followed by the <strong>name of the spreadsheet<\/strong> in <strong>single quotation marks<\/strong> followed by an <strong>exclamation mark<\/strong> and then the <strong>cell specification<\/strong> for the cell to be referenced.<\/p>\n<p>The second parameter contains the <strong>link text<\/strong> as it should appear clickable in the cell.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69031\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69031\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69031\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/excel-hyperlink-to-cell-in-another-spreadsheet.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot Excel: Link target for the hyperlink is the other worksheet\" width=\"700\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/excel-hyperlink-to-cell-in-another-spreadsheet.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/excel-hyperlink-to-cell-in-another-spreadsheet-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Link target spreadsheet after clicking on hyperlink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you then click on the link, Excel automatically switches to the specified worksheet and the specified cell.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very practical function which, if implemented correctly, can avoid a lot of searching and scrolling in large files.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who manages large Excel files knows the problem: endless scrolling and searching. With the HYPERLINK function, you can easily insert a clickable link that refers directly to a specific worksheet and a specific cell. This saves time and makes navigation in large Excel spreadsheets much more convenient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[1855],"class_list":["post-69025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en","tag-excel-en-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}