How to format a cell as email address

[Steve Freides]

Someone sent me a spreadsheet with a column for email addresses. Only
some of the addresses are clickable links and I thought I'd do everyone
a service and fix the cells that aren't formatted properly and sent the
spreadsheet back out again. (It's a team list for one of my kids' sports
teams.)

But, when I go into format, I see lots of things like text, number,
currency, special - but no email. How does one do this?

I'm using Excel Office 2003, SP1, running on XP/Pro, SP2, with all the
latest updates to both.

Thanks in advance.

-S-
http://www.kbnj.com

 

[Casey]

Steve Freides,

One way is to select the cell you want to place an active e-mail
address and go to Insert>Hyperlink in the dialog box select e-mail
address (lower left hand corner in Excel 2002) type in your email
address in the line provided.

Normally, when I type in a line of text in a cell that looks like an
email address Excel recognizes it as such and makes it a hyperlink. But
that may be an option setting that I'm unaware of and just happen to
have set correctly on my machine by luck.

HTH

 

[bigwheel]

e-mail addresses should be hyperlinks, so select the cell containing the
non-clickable text, then click on the Hyperlink tool. The Inser Hyperlink
dialog will appear so then click E-mail Address and fill in the details under
the e-mail address input space (harder to describe than actually doing it!!)

 

[Steve Freides]

Thank you both.

-S-
http://www.kbnj.com

e-mail addresses should be hyperlinks, so select the cell containing
the
non-clickable text, then click on the Hyperlink tool. The Inser
Hyperlink
dialog will appear so then click E-mail Address and fill in the
details under
the e-mail address input space (harder to describe than actually doing
it!!)

 

[Michael]

Steve, you can also select the cell, press F2 and Enter and it will create
the hyperlink for you.