Open specific Worksheet in Excel

Question

i have a problem to open an Excelfile (from a Sharepoint Server) to a specific Sheet (eg. Sheet3).

I have already tried:

http://PathToFile/PathtoFile/Excelfile.xlsx#Sheet3

or http://PathToFile/PathtoFile/Excelfile.xlsx#Sheet3!A1

or http://PathToFile/PathtoFile/Excelfile.xlsx#'Sheet3'!A1

or http://PathToFile/PathtoFile/Excelfile.xlsx#"Sheet3"!A1

but no one of this Links open the right sheet... I only get the download massage from IE and it opens the last opened Sheet.

Do i make any big misstake? I am using Office 2016 (at a PC, non Mac).

I hope someone can help me with this Problem and sorry for my bad English ;-)

Answer 1

By default, Excel files will open to the sheet that was active when the workbook was last saved. AFAIK there is no command line or URL parameter to set a specific sheet to be active when the file is opened.

You may want to use a Workbook_Open event in VBA to force the workbook to display a specific sheet.

Answer 2

I spent way too long on this very problem. My use case was simpler: I maintain a fairly complex set of account data in Excel and needed to expose certain reports on it (pivot tables, queries) to salespeople.

Appending ActiveCell=CellName didn't work but using the Item=itemName URL parameter did. I just made sure that every table had a unique name. I then grabbed the Sharepoint URL from Share | Copy Link and appended the appropriate parameter, eg, Item=report_name_of_table .

Not pretty, but it worked.

Answer 3

First create a named range for the table or data on the spreadsheet you want to link to. Now that I think of it I don't think it's necessary. But do it if all else fails. :-)

At the end of your file path add this ?web=1?range='YourWorksheetName' Where YourWorksheetName will be the name of the worksheet or the table range name.

Your final path will look something like this assuming it's an Excel you are linking to in a SharePoint data library...

http://xxx/xxxxxx/xx/archmetrics/Data%20Library/3Q%202018%20Reporting.xlsx?web=1?range='TimeInPhase'