

Right-click the text box button again to select it, left-click on the very edge of the text box button to ensure you have selected the entire text box button and not just the text within the text box, press Ctrl+C to copy the text box button, then navigate to each worksheet and paste the text box button on each of your worksheets to make navigating your large workbook easier.

Right-click the text box to select it, press Ctrl+K to launch the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, select Place in This Document (under the Link to menu), scroll down to Defined Names, select TOC, and press OK. Apply a hyperlink to your text box button.(In the example pictured below, I made the Text Box red, centered and bolded the text, applied a button effect, and applied a bottom right shadow.) Anywhere in the workbook, insert a Text Box (from the Insert tab's Shapes menu), label it Return to the Table of Contents, and format the button to your desire. This named location will be the cell where the navigational button created in the steps below will lead. Start by placing your cursor at the top of the table of contents and in the Name Box (located directly above column A), type TOC and press the Enter key. The advantage of this alternative approach is that the separate column of hyperlinks (such as column C in the example above) is not necessary, but the disadvantage is that each hyperlink must be applied one at a time.)įurther, I recommend you insert a button on each worksheet that will return you to your table of contents, as follows: The key here is that the INDIRECT function acts as the messenger that returns the correct sheet address in a dynamic way to the different lookup formulas. The other approach uses INDEX & MATCH and Excel Table names and references.

(As an alternative, you could instead select each name in the table of contents one at a time and press Ctrl+K to apply a hyperlink directly to each worksheet name. One method uses VLOOKUP and direct worksheet and cell references. As a result, you will then be able to click each link to jump to the various worksheets listed in your table of contents.
