Can't Active Hyperlinks with Enter Key in Excel 2003

Originally Posted by Bill Flefingham

I recently switched to Excel 2003. I create a large number of hyperlinks in Excel and activate the links quite often. In the old version of Excel I had, I could highlight the cell and press the enter key to activate the link, but in 2003 can only activate the links using the mouse. The continual clicking has quickly grown tiresome.

Is there a setting that can be adjusted in Excel 2003 that allows for activation of hyperlinks with the enter (or return) key?

Hi,

not to my knowledge, but you could record a macro that contained a line something like

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and set that with a Shortcut key to avoid using the mouse.

hth
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