Go to entered date in Excel for Mac 2016

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renpilot

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Hello all experts,

I have tried some VBA solutions I found but they don't work (or maybe I am doing something wrong). I read that Excel for Mac is not as advanced, so maybe that is the reason.

I am trying to make Excel for Mac 2016 go to a date that I enter in A2. The date can be in rows b4:nc4 or b11:nc11 or b18:nc18 as I am displaying the days for three years in these rows. The entered dates in the three rows are dd/mm/yyyy but are displayed as dd/mmm to save space. The entered date is in format dd/mm/yy.

I would like this functionality as it is easier to navigate all these dates when an input has to be made in a cell below the specific date. Column A is frozen so the identifiers will always be visible when scrolling through to any given date.

Hope you have ideas :-)
 

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Goto.xlsx
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO
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204/01/2024
3Go to…
4202401/01/202402/01/202403/01/202404/01/202405/01/202406/01/202407/01/202408/01/202409/01/202410/01/202411/01/202412/01/202413/01/202414/01/2024
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Sheet1 (2)
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
A3A3=HYPERLINK(SUBSTITUTE("["&RIGHT(CELL("nombrearchivo"),LEN(CELL("nombrearchivo"))-FIND("[",CELL("nombrearchivo"))),"]","]'")&"'!"&ADDRESS(MAX(ROW($B$4:$NC$18)*($B$4:$NC$18=A2)),MAX(COLUMN($B$4:$NC$18)*($B$4:$NC$18=A2))),"Go to…")
 
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Hi,

Thank you for helping :)
I copied your formula and only changed the , to ; as my Excel uses semicolons and not commas. I did not change anything else. I pasted the formula in cell A3 and get a #Value error. So I tried to trace the error and as far as I can see it points to cell B4. I have attached a screenshot of the trace and also of the value of B4 which is formatted to show a shorter date/month.

Any ideas?

R.
 

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Im sorry i forgot to change the argument for the CELL function, if your excel is in english it should be "filename" not "nombrearchivo"

Here is the bb code again with the correction. Let me know if it works:

Goto.xlsx
ABCDEFGHIJKLM
1
204/01/2024
3Go to…
4202401/01/202402/01/202403/01/202404/01/202405/01/202406/01/202407/01/202408/01/202409/01/202410/01/202411/01/202412/01/2024
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11202501/01/202502/01/202503/01/202504/01/202505/01/202506/01/202507/01/202508/01/202509/01/202510/01/202511/01/202512/01/2025
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18202601/01/202602/01/202603/01/202604/01/202605/01/202606/01/202607/01/202608/01/202609/01/202610/01/202611/01/202612/01/2026
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Sheet1 (2)
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
A3A3=HYPERLINK(SUBSTITUTE("["&RIGHT(CELL("filename"),LEN(CELL("filename"))-FIND("[",CELL("filename"))),"]","]'")&"'!"&ADDRESS(MAX(ROW($B$4:$NC$18)*($B$4:$NC$18=A2)),MAX(COLUMN($B$4:$NC$18)*($B$4:$NC$18=A2))),"Go to…")
 
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Hi again - fast reply:)

Same result unfortunately. I tried entering 30/08/24 and 30/08/2024 in cell A2.
I also noticed that the formula somehow only covers years 2024 and 2025, but not 2026. Maybe this can be changed in your formula if we get it to work or is there a problem with how big a range (B4:NC18) can be put in this particular formula?

Please see attached.
 

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Just some further information. I tried setting the regional settings on my Mac to United States and copied your formula with "filename" and didn't change the commas (that are used as formula separators in Excel US version). The result was the same value error..
 
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Ohhh I think I can guess what the problem is why it wont work. Are you using the web application?
 
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just found this on Google:
Since 2016, Microsoft Excel has run in an App Sandbox on macOS. This means that a HYPERLINK function which points to a local path, like HYPERLINK("/Users/me/Desktop/example. pdf") , won't work.
 
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renpilot said:
just found this on Google:
Since 2016, Microsoft Excel has run in an App Sandbox on macOS. This means that a HYPERLINK function which points to a local path, like HYPERLINK("/Users/me/Desktop/example. pdf") , won't work.
Click to expand...
But now I am confused as the HYPERLINK function shows up as a valid function in my version of Excel so according to Microsoft help forums the function should work in my version....
 
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