{"id":18892963,"date":"2026-04-28T09:59:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/urls-in-formula-corrupted-on-edit\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:59:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:59:03","slug":"urls-in-formula-corrupted-on-edit","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/urls-in-formula-corrupted-on-edit\/","title":{"rendered":"URLs in formula corrupted on edit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hi, I have a simple excel spreadsheet, 20 rows and 5 columns. Col3 includes a website URL (stored as text, not as a hyperlink), which is turned into a html <a> tag using a formula in col5. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

=\"<a href=\"&CHAR(39)&C2&CHAR(39)&\" target=\"&CHAR(39)&\"_blank\"&CHAR(39)&\" >\"&A2&\"<\/a>\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
If I edit the table structure – move rows around for example, once it has been imported then the results in column 5 get corrupted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18892963","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18892963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18892963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18892963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}