Creating URL links using a formula

Dan Morris

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Office Version
  1. 365
Platform
  1. Windows
If
A1 = John
B1 = Bloggs<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>
<o:p></o:p>
How do I make
C1 = a hyperlink to a file in the format "D:\files\John Bloggs" which I can then click to access John Blogg's files.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p></o:p>
I got as far as<o:p></o:p>
=CONCATENATE("D:\files\",A1," ",B1)<o:p></o:p>
but it wouldn't hyperlink to the file structure it had created<o:p></o:p>
<o:p></o:p>
Can you help? :confused:
 

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