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Google Sheets users struggle to manage links across cells and imports

Google Sheets users run into friction when they need to extract, add, or automatically generate links in cells. Rich-text links are not available as ordinary cell values, and users report that URL fields can be skipped during tab-delimited imports or that array formulas do not create links as expected. The evidence points to manual copying and trial-and-error rather than a dependable workflow for these tasks.

For spreadsheet users managing link-heavy data. Mentioned from Feb 2024 to Apr 2025 on Stack Exchange.

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  1. I need to copy ONLY the links from the first column to the neighboring column. It would take years to do this manually and I can't find a quick solution on the internet
    K14M on webapps.stackexchange.comFeb 2024Asked for a tool
  2. When I import my tab-delimited text file into the sheet, all the data imports except the URL fields which are ignored. I don't get an error message
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