So these are some of the methods that you can use to quickly remove hyperlinks from cells in Google Sheets. If you don’t add the blank character and simply use =A2, it would bring over the hyperlink as well. doing this automatically converts the text in the referred cell (which is cell A2 in this case) to regular text. Try going to: Office button -> Excel Options -> Trust Center -> Trust Center Settings -> External Content -> select either Prompt or Disable in. This formula works as we are concatenating the text in cells in column A, with a blank character. To do this, use the below formula in column B =""&A2Ĭopy this formula for the entire column to get the text from all the hyperlinks in the adjacent cell. Suppose you have a data set as shown below and you want to get the text from the hyperlinks in column A.
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The benefit of this method is that your resulting data would automatically update in case you make any changes to the original data
Removing Hyperlinks Using a FormulaĪnother quick way to remove hyperlinks from a range of cells is to use a simple formula that would give you the same text in those cells (in separate columns) but remove all the formatting and the hyperlinks. Now you can copy this data and paste it over the hyperlink data, or delete the original data and use this data going forward. The above steps would copy the data and paste only the values while getting rid of all the formatting and the hyperlinks.
Hover the cursor over the ‘Paste special’ option.Right-click on the cell where you want to copy this data (in this example, I am going to use cell B2).
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The methods shown in this tutorial would also work in case you have created the link using the HYPERLINK function in Google Sheets.