Creating hyperlinks in Excel

[jmt356]

Is it possible to highlight a word in Excel and cause it to become a hyperlink such that clicking on the word takes the user to a web site, as can be done in Word by selecting the word and pressing ctrl + k?

[HansV]

In Excel, you can only assign a hyperlink to a cell as a whole. So if a cell contains (for example) three words, you cannot make just one of those words into a hyperlink.

[Rudi]

As Hans mentions, a single word cannot be hyperlinked within a phrase, but if the "word" can be extracted from the cell based on a condition of some sort, it can be hyperlinked using a HYPERLINK function within a helper column.

[jmt356]

When I use the arrow buttons in Excel, the entire Excel spreadsheet moves around. How can I get the arrow keys to move only the selected cell?

[HansV]

You've probably turned on Scroll Lock. Press the Scroll Lock key on the keyboard to turn it off.
If you're using a laptop that does not have a Scroll Lock key, select Start > All Programs > Accessories > Ease of Access > On-Screen Keyboard. The on-screen keyboard has a ScrLk "key".

[Rudi]

It sounds like you have scroll lock active on your keyboard.
Press the ScrLk key to deactivate the feature.