How to create a hyperlink to a different Excel sheet in the same workbook

Question

I'm using the module openpyxl for Python and am trying to create a hyperlink that will take me to a different tab in the same Excel workbook. Doing something similar to the following creates the hyperlink; however, when I click on it, it tells me it can't open the file.

from openpyxl import Workbook

wb = Workbook()
first_sheet = wb.create_sheet(title='first')
second_sheet = wb.create_sheet(title='second')

first_sheet['A1'] = "hello"
second_sheet['B2'] = "goodbye"

link_from = first_sheet['A1']
link_to = second_sheet['B2'].value

link_from.hyperlink = link_to

wb.save("C:/somepath/workbook.xlsx")

I'm assuming the issue lies in the value of 'link_to'; however, I don't know what would need changed or what kind of path I would have to write.

I'm using Python 2.7.6 and Excel 2013.

Answer 1

Support for hyperlinks in openpyxl is currently extremely rudimentary and largely limited to reading the links in existing files.

Answer 2

I found a way to do it.

Assuming one .xlsx file named 'workbookEx.xlsx' with two sheets named 'sheet1' and 'sheet2' and needing a link from one cell(A1) of the 'sheet1' to another cell(E5) of the 'sheet2':

from openpyxl import load_workbook

wb = load_workbook(workbookEx.xlsx) 
ws = wb.get_sheet_by_name("sheet1")

link = "workbookEx.xlsx#sheet2!E5"

ws.cell(row=1, column=1).hyperlink = (link)

The secret was the "#", Excel do not shows you but it uses the '#' for same file links, I just had to copy a same file link created in Excel to a Word document to see the '#'.

It is also possible to omit the filename, i.e. to link against a sheet of the active document just use: _cell.hyperlink = '#sheetName!A1'.

To name the link you just created, just set the cell value to the desired string: _cell.value = 'Linkname'.

Answer 3

Another working solution is to use excels built in function HYPERLINK. It doesn't make the value in the cell into a hyperlink but put a formula in the cell and act like a hyperlink.

ws.cell('A1').value = '=HYPERLINK("#sheet2!E5","Link name")'

Answer 4

As an addendum to Marcus.Luck's answer, if wanting to use Excel's built-in hyperlink function directly, you may need to format as:

'=HYPERLINK("{}", "{}")'.format(link, "Link Name")

Without this formatting, the file didn't open for me without needing repair, which removed the cell values when clicking the links.

e.g. ws.cell(row=1, column=1).value = '=HYPERLINK("{}", "{}")'.format(link, "Link Name")