Excel - create link to an image file

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Anyone know how to create a link to a Photoshop image file in an Excel worksheet?

The .psd image file is on my machine so the link needs to go to the correct location in Windows Explorer (i.e. it's not a web address).

I've tried everything and don't think it can be done in Excel - or can it? :thinking:
 
neil_g said:
i think its just a normal file:// URL?
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That only seems to work for jpegs (and non-image files). If I try it with a .psd file, the link launches Photoshop and I get the 'Reading Photoshop Format' progress bar - but no image appears.
 
PS. I'm right-clicking on a cell in the worksheet, selecting 'Hyperlink', then navigating to the explorer location (in the 'Insert Hyperlink' dialog). That puts the file location into the cell but it's useless because the above happens.
 
Ozei said:
That only seems to work for jpegs (and non-image files). If I try it with a .psd file, the link launches Photoshop and I get the 'Reading Photoshop Format' progress bar - but no image appears.
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Probably right, excel can read jpg but probably doesn't have a built in decode for adobe/raw formats.
 
neil_g said:
Probably right, excel can read jpg but probably doesn't have a built in decode for adobe/raw formats.
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Yes, I think that's a likely reason.

Is there a way of getting it (the link) to open the folder instead? I can't even get it to do that.
 
Usually if you create the hyperlink for a specific document in the folder you want to open and then remove the document element of the path it will open the folder it's in.
 
Shadow said:
Usually if you create the hyperlink for a specific document in the folder you want to open and then remove the document element of the path it will open the folder it's in.
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I just tried that and it works - which is really weird because it didn't work yesterday when I tried copying the folder path from the address bar in Win Explorer and pasting it into the hyperlink address box. This created a link that did nothing at all.

Also, before I deleted the file name from the file path (today) I tried the full link to the .psd file - Photoshop launched from Excel and the image opened. Then it closed again. :thinking::thinking:
 
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