Extract URL From Excel Hyperlink Formula

Question

I have an Excel file with hundreds of cells that use the Hyperlink formula =HYPERLINK( , ). I need to extract the plain te

Answer 1

Non-VBA possibility:

Work on copies of the cells with links because the first step is to replace part of their content (specifically = with I suggest the not sign ¬). Then, assuming the copy is in A1:

=SUBSTITUTE(LEFT(MID(A1,13,LEN(A1)),FIND("""",MID(A1,13,LEN(A1)))-1),"¬","=")  

and replace ¬ with = where the link contains an equals sign.