This is the third part in a series describing how to use the Hyperlink tool in Microsoft Excel (see the bottom of this post for links to the first two parts). In this part, I will be showing you how to create a new document and put a link to it in your spreadsheets.

Personally, I haven’t used this function of the Hyperlink tool that much. However, that doesn’t mean that you won’t ever have a use for it. For example, if you are creating a spreadsheet where you want the user to be able to create a new document and then save it off, you would use this function.

I’m going to skip how to open the dialog, as that was discussed in the first article. Assuming the dialog is open, select the Create New Document option in the Link to: box. The result is shown below:

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