Re: Get URL from Hyperlink

2020-08-18 Thread Brian Barker
At 17:40 18/08/2020 -0400, David Stuhr wrote: Hello Brian, I had time today to copy the Basic macro code in the link provided today into a test spreadsheet. I pasted the code between "Sub Main" and "End Sub". I then saved the macro. When I attempted to compile the macro I got the following

Re: Get URL from Hyperlink - Solved

2020-08-18 Thread Brian Barker
At 19:38 18/08/2020 -0400, David Stuhr wrote: I think in this day and age that a function that would get the URL from a Hyperlink in a spreadsheet cell would be entirely appropriate. Does the team/individual that maintains OpenOffice have a "suggestion" box? Yup. You can suggest enhancements

Re: Get URL from Hyperlink - Solved

2020-08-18 Thread David Stuhr
Hello, I figured out a very low tech solution ... save as an HTML file, a little editing and a file import. Done. Sometimes simpler is better and I know I will fully understand what I am dong. :-) I would be more than happy to write up a cheat sheet of the steps in the procedure that I am

Re: Get URL from Hyperlink

2020-08-18 Thread Andrew Pitonyak
They updated my email servers and they have decided that any document with a macro is invalid / dangerous. Will see if I can fix it or if I need to have the admin to id. It was fixed a few months back, but the server was updated. They are just trying to keep me safe Hate that to some

Re: Get URL from Hyperlink

2020-08-18 Thread Andrew Pitonyak
Yeah, it would not send. Not sure if my server rejected the email, if his server rejected my server, etc. I need to look into it.  On Tuesday, August 18, 2020 18:37 EDT, Steven Ahlers wrote:  Andrew you need to remove the .INVALID from the end of his email address. Sent from my iPhone > On

Re: Get URL from Hyperlink

2020-08-18 Thread Steven Ahlers
Andrew you need to remove the .INVALID from the end of his email address. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 18, 2020, at 5:25 PM, Andrew Pitonyak wrote: > >  > Nope, sorry, I did the work, but I could not send an email to your email > address. Did not bother trying to figure out why, might be

Re: Get URL from Hyperlink

2020-08-18 Thread Andrew Pitonyak
Nope, sorry, I did the work, but I could not send an email to your email address. Did not bother trying to figure out why, might be because my email is not letting me send the macro attachment, in which case I need to fix my outgoing email server or if yours rejected it. I will look at this

Re: Get URL from Hyperlink

2020-08-18 Thread Andrew Pitonyak
My best guess is that you pasted the macro into the subroutine that is created when a module is created.  I created a Calc Document and then I placed the macro as a module in the standard library of the Calc document. I tested the code and it seems to work just fine.  I will mail you the

Re: Get URL from Hyperlink

2020-08-18 Thread David Stuhr
Hello Brian, I had time today to copy the Basic macro code in the link provided today into a test spreadsheet. I pasted the code between "Sub Main" and "End Sub". I then saved the macro. When I attempted to compile the macro I got the following error. BASIC syntax error. Function not

Re: Get URL from Hyperlink

2020-08-17 Thread Brian Barker
At 08:18 17/08/2020 -0400, David Stuhr wrote: I have an OpenOffice spreadsheet that has over a thousand hyperlinks to an external www website. The information in each hyperlinked cell is the URL and descriptive text. From a search of the web it appears that Excel has a "get URL" function but a

Get URL from Hyperlink

2020-08-17 Thread David Stuhr
Hello, I have an OpenOffice spreadsheet that has over a thousand hyperlinks to an external www website. The information in each hyperlinked cell is the URL and descriptive text. From a search of the web it appears that Excel has a "get URL" function but a search of OpenOffice help did not