Author: Oscar Cronquist Article last updated on April 12, 2018

The ENCODEURL function returns a URL-encoded string.

Formula in cell C3:

=ENCODEURL(B3)

Excel Function Syntax

ENCODEURL(text)

Arguments

text Required. The string to be URL encoded.

Comments

URLs sent over the internet use the ASCII character set. Characters outside the ASCII set must be converted into a valid format.

Space characters are translated into %20 and unsafe ASCII characters with a "%" followed by two hexadecimal digits.

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