# sign in hyperlinks

thomaslyngfelt

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I am trying to hyperlink to files in my Matlab generated excel sheet.

Unfortunately many of the folder names holding those files have a name including a "#" sign. What I can see is that Excel uses this sign for other purposes, which may cause this problem.

A typical hyperlink look likes this:

=HYPERLINK("\\xx.xxx.x.x\folder1\folder2\folder3\folder4\2017-11-03_#3378\AD_REG_20171103_094649_1_0000001351_cam5.mp4";"cam5")

Is there any way to solve this. Changing the folder names are not an option.

BR
 

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I think this should work:

=HYPERLINK("File:///\\xx.xxx.x.x\folder1\folder2\folder3\folder4\2017-11-03_%233378\AD_REG_20171103_094649_1_0000001351_cam5.mp4";"cam5")

adding File:/// to the start and using %23 instead of the # symbol.
 
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