HOW TO: Link to a Particular Worksheet from a Web Page in Excel 2000

This step-by-step article explains how to create a link from a Web page to a particular worksheet, range, or defined name in a Microsoft Excel 2000 workbook.

Normally, when you create a link from a Web page to a Microsoft Excel workbook, the path in the link refers only to the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for the workbook. For example, if a workbook named "Test.xls" is stored on a Web server named "sample.microsoft.com," use the following syntax to create the link: When you click such a link, the Test.xls workbook opens in your Web browser, and the worksheet that was active when the workbook was last saved becomes the active worksheet. Because of this design, there is no guarantee that a particular worksheet is displayed when you open the workbook in your Web browser.

Link to a Particular Worksheet

You can control which worksheet is displayed when you open a particular workbook in your Web browser. To do this, add the following text to the anchor tag in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) code where SheetName is the name of the worksheet that you want to display (for example, Sheet1) and RangeOrDefinedName is the name of the range (for example, A1 or B5:D10) or defined name (for example, MyRange) that you want to select.

For example, if you want to create a link that opens Test.xls, switches to Sheet3, and selects the range B5:D10, use the following syntax:

Link to a Named Range

If you want to link to the MyRange defined name on Sheet2, use the following syntax: If you are using a list or some other method of linking to workbooks, the syntax that you use to create the link may vary, but the syntax that you use to link to the worksheet, range, or defined name remains the same, for example: