Extracting a URL from hyperlinked text in Excel cell

Question

I have a table full of Hyperlinked text in excel, so it\'s basically a bunch of names but when I click on one, it takes me to some URL in my default browser.

So I am

Answer 1

Use Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) to open Excel workbook and extract all hyperlinks.

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I put a hyperlink into A1 of Sheet1 in Book1.xlsx: text = "example.com, address = "http://www.example.com"

_Application app = null;
try
{
    app = new Application();

    string path = @"c:\temp\Book1.xlsx";
    var workbook = app.Workbooks.Open(path, 0, true, 5, "", "", true, XlPlatform.xlWindows, "\t", false, false, 0, true, 1, 0);

    var sheets = workbook.Worksheets;
    var sheet = (Worksheet)sheets.get_Item("Sheet1");

    var range = sheet.get_Range("A1", "A1");
    var hyperlinks = range.Cells.Hyperlinks.OfType();

    foreach (var h in hyperlinks)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("text: {0}, address: {1}", h.TextToDisplay, h.Address);
    }
}
finally
{
    if (app != null)
        app.Quit();
}

Output:

text: example.com, address: http://www.example.com/