Excel 2007 Hyperlink Limitation

For a couple of years now I’ve been pulling IT service desk statistics into a spreadsheet and setting up worksheets to break down and analyse the data in various ways.  The number of worksheets has subsequently grown a significant amount and I wanted to create a front worksheet that contained hyperlinks to and brief descriptions for each of the subsequent worksheets.

This is straight forward to do in Excel.  Press CTRL+K to bring up the hyperlink dialog and select the “Place in this document” set and then just select the worksheet you want the hyperlink to link to.  The issue I discovered was that this really does only apply to worksheets.  I had several chart sheets inserted into the workbook and these were not being listed in the hyperlink options.

As a result I’ve copied the charts from each of the chart sheets and pasted them as items on new worksheets.  An inelegant solution, but a practical one that doesn’t involve adding a macro to do the job.

Author: Stephen Millard
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