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I have a document I share using Excel online via onedrive. I update it in on the desktop app and people access it via a link, and view it on the Web version.
Up until yesterday, a viewer would be able to click a cells with a hyperlink to another sheet in the workbook, and it would automatically take them there. Today, every single cell with a hyperlink requests the viewer to 'ctrl and click' to follow the hyperlink.
I have gone though every single option on my desktop Excel app to try and turn off this 'ctrl and click' functuon but I genuinely cannot find anything relevant or that has worked. I have the latest version of Excel for Mac and I haven't changed any settings.
Please, how do I make hyperlinks work automatically again? Thank you!!
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I found that hovering over the link pops up the link. Click it and the tab opens as the active tab.
I Found a work around, select Cell / right click mouse / link options /open link
Microsoft apparently made it so this is the way links in the web version of excel work now and there is no fix -- it's a built-in 'feature' ---according to the answer from a Microsoft moderator Please fix this why would a built in feature require additional key strokes to work.
Help - remove ctrl+click to use hyperlink - Microsoft Community 1200 complaints on this thread and 959 on the linked one here !
I 1000% percent agree. [Ctrl] + Click should be an option and not enabled as default.
I also look forward to Microsoft undoing this "update" and allowing [ctrl] + click as an option.
The number of people who rely on my spreadsheets with hyperlinks have ALL reached out to me asking me how to "disable" the [ctrl] + click option. Microsoft: Fix this. Thanks!
Hi There
I'm experiencing the same issue, only when using Excel in One Drive on Chrome, when testing in Edge I dont have this problem, but since I only use Chrome, the issue persists.
Did anybody perhaps find a solution to this?