Google-sheets – Hyperlink within a Google Sheets

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I have a Google spreadsheet with many tabs. I would like to put a link in a cell on one tab that when clicked takes me to another cell on another tab.

Is this possible?

Best Answer

I've discovered this hack, perhaps it helps:

open the target sheet, the one you want to link to
copy the browser URL (notice it's unique per Sheet)
go to the other sheet and select the cell where you want to place the link
enter the following value in the cell: =HYPERLINK("paste here the URL copied at step 2", "enter link text here")

Related Solutions

Google Sheets – Creating a Table of Contents

I guess further progress given the time elapsed because what I think you require is very simple. Select A1 in Sheet1, click on the link icon in the menu bar, enter:

Sheet2!B2

for Link and click Apply.

Google Apps Script – Prevent ‘Invoked Too Many Times Per Second’ Error

Better is to prepare a result for a range in stead of dealing with individual cell. When you open the file, it needs to process all the cells individually. This, in the end, evoked the error. Therefore I created the below code.

Code

function catExp_1(range) {
  var output = [], arr = JSON.parse(createArr());
  for(var j=0, jLen=range.length; j<jLen; j++) {
    var result = "Not Sure";
    for(var i=0, iLen=arr.length; i<iLen; i++) {      
      for(var k=0, kLen=arr[i][1].length; k<kLen; k++) {        
        if(range[j][0].indexOf(arr[i][1][k]) != -1) {
          result = arr[i][0];
        }
      }      
    }
    output.push([result]);
  }
  return output;
}

function createArr() {
  // check for availability
  var cache = CacheService.getPublicCache();
  var cached = cache.get("accounts");
  if (cached != null) {  
    return cached;
  }

  // create array
  var arr = [    
    [["5070 - Bank Charges"],["PURCHASE INTEREST", "xxxx"]],
    [["5530 - Postage Expense"],["CPC SCP","xxxx"]],
    [["9999 - xxxxxxx"],["xxxxxxxx"]]
  ];

  // add to cache
  var jsonData = JSON.stringify(arr);
  cache.put("accounts", jsonData, 21000);
  return jsonData;
}

Explained

The first script will create an output array and collect the lookup data. This is either stored in the cache or prepared on the fly (and stored in the cache for the next time). The iteration start with a category Not Sure. If an match is found, then the corresponding value will be push into the output array. Else the Not Sure will be added.

Usage

=catExp_1(B2:B133)

Note

You might want to consider adding the categories, rather than looking them up. This eliminates any delay from the script. You can easily create a menu item that does this.