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Asked: 2026-06-04T08:52:51+00:00

I have an excel file with some email links. I would like to have

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I have an excel file with some email links. I would like to have a clickable link to download those files.

Having the two files (the excel and the email) in the same folder, the link file://test.eml or only test.eml does not open it, I need to use an absolute path. There would be a way to do this?

Thanks

EDIT

The absolute path is a known value, but anyway, the file is not opened. 

=HYPERLINK("C:\Users\blanca.hernandez\Desktop\2012-05-24T09-41-11-0.00007.eml", "email")

It is funny, because something like

file://C:\Users\blanca.hernandez\Desktop\2012-05-24T09-41-11-0.00007.eml

gives me a clickabe link to open the file, but if I want to do the same with other directory, as

file://C:\repository\project\mail\archive\2012\5\24\11\2012-05-24T09-41-11-0.00007.eml

it is not possible to open. Are there some reasons for that?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use the Hyperlink(LinkLocation, FriendlyName") function in conjunction with Cell("filename")

    Cell("filename") returns the full file name of the file that contains the reference as
    C:\Full\Path\[FileName.xlsm]SheetName
    To get just the path use
    LEFT(CELL("filename"),FIND("*", SUBSTITUTE(CELL("filename"), "\", "*", LEN(CELL("filename")) - LEN(SUBSTITUTE(CELL("filename"),"\","")))))

    Hyperlink(LinkLocation, FriendlyName") creates a hyperlink

    To link to the file test.eml the full formula is

    =HYPERLINK(LEFT(CELL("filename"),FIND("*",SUBSTITUTE(CELL("filename"),"\","*",LEN(CELL("filename"))-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(CELL("filename"),"\","")))))&"test.eml","Link to File")
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