How do I convert a column of text URLs into active hyperlinks in Excel?

Question

I have a column in excel, wherein I have all the website url values. My question is I want to turn the url values to active links. There are about 200 entries in that column

Answer 1

I had a list of numbers that feed into url's I want hotlinked. For example I have Column A with question numbers (i.e., 2595692, 135171) and I want to turn these question numbers into hotlinks and to display only the question numbers.

So I built a text-only hyperlink pointing to Column A, and copied it down for all my question numbers:

="=HYPERLINK("&"""http""&"":"""&""&"&"&"""//stackoverflow.com/questions/"&A1&""""&","&A1&")"

Then I copy - paste value this column of text hyperlinks to another column.

You end up with a column of text that looks like the following:

=HYPERLINK("http"&":"&"//stackoverflow.com/questions/2595692",2595692)

Then I selected these pasted items and ran the F2Entry Macro that follows:

Sub F2Enter()
Dim cell As Range
Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual
For Each cell In Selection
    cell.Activate
    cell = Trim(cell)
Next cell
Application.Calculation = xlCalculationAutomatic
EndSub

I then deleted the text entry column and Column A.

I ended up with a single column of hotlinked question numbers:

2595692

135171

etc.

Cheers