Questions tagged [links]
Or Hyperlinks - a reference to data that the reader can directly follow, or that is followed automatically.
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Click link to send a text message in Google Sheets
We are making extensive use of Google Sheets' HYPERLINK formula combined with mailto links to create links in cells that will dynamically generate emails. For example:
=HYPERLINK(
"mailto:...
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How to get a direct link to a post on MeWe?
I want to link to a particular post on MeWe,
With fb, for example, I can get the link by right-clicking on the date, and copy to clipboard.
I can't find it on Mewe.
Clearly, mewe has a post ID, ...
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How to personalize the link of video?
Recently I was watching a video of a function held in our school through the school's Facebook page. I like to have that video but downloading will consume huge data (as it is a 3-hour long video) So ...
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Using Gmail and rfc822 I cannot create link to specific mail
I want to create a simple link to a specific mail , so I can insert and use this from a Word document.
When using rfc822 approach it opens Gmail inputbox, but not the specific mail. Links:
How to link ...
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How to add a UNC URL to a MediaWiki page
In a MediaWiki page, I'd like to add an URL to a file on a file server. The path is an UNC one(\\fileserver\project\...\SPECIAL.ext), and I already have tried following "path link":
file:////...
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How can I make a hover on link in Google Slides?
Inspired by a YouTuber (Icoso), I decided to try to make a game in google slides. My problem here is that if I want to make a maze game, I need to figure out how to create a link, that by hovering ...
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Can I turn/disguise links as texts in Facebook posts?
I oftentimes post links in comment sections and Facebook Groups, to direct a person to a post, a group or a website. But sometimes links take too much space and they're kind of a bit too messy to look ...
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Adding email address to Linktree
I'm trying to set up a Linktree page... I've added some links to my social media profiles but would also like to have an 'email' link which would work in the same way as a mailto link in HTML.
I can't ...
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How do I apply arrayformula on a hyperlink so that I can reference another cell in a different sheet?
I have a column on sheet2 where each cell has a hyperlink redirecting to cells of a column of sheet1.
I have manually gotten the "Link to this cell" and put in under hyperlink to be able to ...
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In Office 365's Lucidchart, how would I find the backward reference structure among multiple documents?
I am creating a collection of dependency diagrams for a large code base. Each class has a diagram that will branch out until they hit a dependency on another file (a function call from a different ...
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set preview image for Google drive folder link sharing
I have a Google Drive folder with link sharing turned on. I want to set a preview image, for social media.
Right now, it uses a low resolution Google Drive logo expanded to fit the preview image size, ...
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How can I share a link to Google Maps with 3D view enabled?
I can share a link to Google Maps with someone so that they can view the location from above:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.213931,-8.7751829,46m/data=!3m1!1e3
And it looks like this:
Now, they ...
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How to create a link with content bound to other cell's content in Google sheets?
As stated in the tittle I'm trying to make the content of a cell that links to an other cell have it's display text be based on the other cell's content. Before I was able to do it by right clicking ...
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How to use relative file paths in Excel files hosted on OneDrive?
I created an Excel file that contains a column whose cells are links to HTML files in a subdirectory of the directory in which the Excel file resides. The links use a relative path structure, ie ...
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How do I add a hyperlink in a Slack channel description?
Slack now provides the ability to create formatted hyperlinks in posts but I don't see how to do this in a Channel Description?
How do I add a formatted hyperlink in a Slack Channel Description?
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Adding aliased hyperlinks to Google Forms multiple choice
I've a Google Form which includes a multiple choice list with radio buttons and would like each item to be a hyperlink to an item description.
Is it possible? How?
If not, is there a workaround?
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How did this person add a hyperlink in the YouTube comments?
I found this comment from over 6 years ago. It has a hyperlink to a YouTube video, not a link, but a hyperlink. How was/is this done?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbDHfUc_fMI&lc=...
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Change link unfurling image used by Notion
Whenever you post a link to Notion into Slack etc, the image that unfurls is always this:
Is it possible to change the image used in Notion for link unfurling? Ideally it would either be the image ...
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How to change permalink format for future articles, but keep previous permalinks the same in WordPress
When I first started my website and didn't really know what I was doing so I made the permalink include the date in the permalink. This is problematic because if I were to change it to the simple ...
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How to link a word to some part of my document?
Suppose in my Google Docs document I write the definition of a word.
5 pages later, I write that word. I want to be able to click in that word and the document take me back to the definition, written ...
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Creating Hyperlinks of Google Drive Items in Alphabetic Order
The original post that I got the google script editor code from was here:
Get share link of multiple files in Google Drive to put in spreadsheet
It works perfectly fine, but what I want to do is show ...
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How can I create a Google Sheets script to generate hyperlinks to corresponding tabs based on cell value?
I have a list and want to quickly add a hyperlink to the corresponding tab.
Say my list is in column BC and looks like:
A
B
C
A
C
B
I would like all the A's to have a hyperlink to the sheet within ...
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How do I link to a specific gmail search, google document etc on the correct google apps domain?
I want to provide links to specific GMail folders, GMail messages, Google Drive items etc on a company webpage.
Users may have multiple Google accounts and it is not guaranteed that their primary / ...
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How is it possible to post named hyperlinks in a facebook post?
This post has asked a similar question, but I don't want to know if it IS possible (because I already know it is), but HOW is it possible. For example, you can go to this facebook link, which is a ...
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How to use HYPERLINK text as the first argument for MATCH?
I have one column with hyperlinks and another column in which I do a vertical lookup using INDEX + MATCH. The catch is that the first argument for the MATCH function should be the correspondent value ...
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Sharing Facebook links on Twitter: why no link preview or snippet generated?
I want to share a Facebook page, or in fact any Facebook URL, on
Twitter. (I.e., I want to "Tweet a link to a Facebook page, etc.")
Why is no "link preview" generated?
Why is no "snippet" generated?
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Convert URL list to linked page titles
I'm looking for a webapp to convert a list of URLs into their respective page titles with links to the respective sites. The output could be either raw HTML or rich text. The tool would of course need ...
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Pull data as a string from a hyperlinked cell in Google Sheets
I have utility that I've been working on (modified from an existing sheet) for a Tabletop game I run for my group.
Currently, it generates random items from a list. The name of each of the items has ...
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How to create no pop-up Hyperlinks/Bookmarks for an array of cells within the same tab/sheet
I'm trying to create a formula that will allow all the cells in Column B to include a hyperlink to cells in Column J in their corresponding rows. The kicker is that I'm trying to keep the current ...
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How to automatically apply a hyperlink formula with relative reference to a whole column?
I have the following formula in every cell in my C column:
=IF(ISBLANK(B4),"",CONCATENATE("https://www.url.com/",B4))
If the cell in the B column has content, it takes that content and concatenates ...
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How can I paste HYPERLINK formula in Google Sheets cell, to make it clickable link with defined text?
I got a script that takes some data and prepares it to paste into Google Sheets cells, some of which are supposed to be links with custom text. But when I paste hyperlink formula the script created, ...
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How can I easily link to a bunch of files in my Google Drive from a Google Sheet (in the same account/drive)?
I have a bunch of PDF files in a single folder (say "myPDFs") in my Google Drive.
I have a Google Sheet stored in the same Google Drive. One column of this Sheet has the filenames of the PDF files. (...
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How to open a hyperlink in the same tab using a keyboard shortcut
How do you open a hyperlink in Google Sheets using only keyboard shortcuts? Google has Alt+Enter which opens the hyperlink, but in a new tab in Chrome. How can you open the hyperlink using only ...
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Create a hyperlink from two columns, one with title and one with links, then retain only the hyperlink without losing the references
Demo sheet here.
Say I have two columns, one with string literal names, and one with links (in text form)
A B
Restaurant 1 http://www.link1.com
Restaurant 2 http://www.link2.com
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Why did Facebook blacklist my website?
I have a site helpmen.org which I use to sell domain names. I used to link to it from my Facebook page, but now it's blacklisted and all posts featuring it have been automatically removed. Since my ...
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Auto Create New Google Sheet With Column Headers Based on List of Names
I'm trying to create a VERY basic CRM tool. I want to create a running list of customer names. Once I enter a name in Column A I'd like a new Sheet automatically created with pre-set columns I can ...
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Export PDF link sheet ID auto change
I have the link for export as PDF a specific range on a sheet
=HYPERLINK("*****export?exportFormat=pdf&format=pdf&gid=962914045&range=A1:H68&pagenumbers=false&gridlines=false&...
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Direct YouTube link as background video not working
I have video banners using the direct mp4 link to YouTube videos using the solution posted by 'ale' here
This worked perfectly yesterday however when viewing the site today, none of the videos load ...
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Using a cell value, to dynamically create a formula, that links to a cell in a different sheet (tab)
Ok. This is a bit complicated, but I will do my best to describe the problem. All of these elements are located in multiple Sheet pages (Tabs) within one singular Google Sheet (Workbook).
Sheet 1: ...
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Why does google use 1000 char long image links?
When I copy an image address from the gallery on google.fr/images it copies this to my clipboard, why?
data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/...
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Problem inserting a column and cell reference/link
I have a sort of summary in my Google sheet.
In the second column, I refer to the sub tables further in the sheet with e.g. this content:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J-
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How do I insert different cell data from a table into a hyperlink?
I have a table of different cell data that I want to insert into different hyperlinks for each item:
=HYPERLINK("https://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/CELL DATA TO BE INSERTED/security","SECURITY")
Cell ...
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Back reference in Wikipedia
Say an entry A has a cross-reference pointing to entry B. Is there any chance that given entry B, we can know it is referred by entry A (any probably other entries)?
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Bookmark Gmail conversation
I would like to get a bookmark (permanent url) for a Gmail conversation, for myself (not to share with third parties). The url displayed in the Browser contains information related to the current ...
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Firebase Dynamic Link service -- I can't understand exactly what it's about [closed]
I read the news that Google has shut down his short linker service goo.gl and the fact that FDL APIs will be used instead. And I've watched a video about the matter. However, I still can't comprehend ...
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How to search in Gmail from a link of an email address in Google Sheet?
I'm creating a spreadsheet for customers and I'd like to be able to view email conversations I've had with them a little more efficiently. Right now I find the email address in the spreadsheet and ...
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Can't email a link copied from Facebook
When I paste a very long URL to a Facebook group, it is no longer displayed in full. For example, https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/abskal271_N782HsnaksLK (link is made up) becomes https://drive....
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Script to call the sheets sharable link
Is there a script for google sheets that calls the sharable link of that specific sheets?
I'm using the Mailapp.sendEmail function to send emails to our manufacturer whenever there is a revision to a ...
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MediaWiki plural links
I have quite a lot of pages with plural named titles, eg widgets.
If a mention a widget and want to make it a link I have to put [[widgets|widget]].
I know there is a pipe trick to give a singular ...
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Is there a way to put an aliased hyperlink in the confirmation message of Google Forms?
I'd like the message to look like:
thanks for your answer, please click here
while the word "here" is clickable and directs to a URL.
I've tried wrapping the hyperlink with quotes, and these ...
