Automatically link to a cell in another sheet if value is the same

Question

I have a status update sheet (sheet1) in which team members have a line per action, and each action has a reference number (s1, columnA).

In another sheet (

Answer 1

What you are looking for is a dynamic hyperlink.

So, let's assume that you have on Sheet1 all the

• team members with the (column B)
• team leads and the (column A)
• reference / project numbers (column C).

On Sheet2 we have a table with various information and the same reference / project number in column E.

Then you can add a new column D to the table on Sheet1 which you might want to name Links and the formula here should be:

=HYPERLINK("#Sheet2!E"&MATCH(D2,Sheet2!E:E,0),"Link to "&D2)

If you are using tables with named columns that you can also use:

=HYPERLINK("#Sheet2!E"&MATCH([@[Reference Number]],Sheet2!E:E,0),"Link to "&[@[Reference Number]])

_{Of course you can adjust the alternative text to something more suitable.}

Maybe the following picture helps explaining the above: