Missing Core Spreadsheet Feature: Internal Sheet-to-Sheet Hyperlinks
Proton Sheets is currently missing a basic, foundational spreadsheet feature that has existed in Excel and Google Sheets for well over a decade: internal hyperlinks between sheets in the same spreadsheet.
Right now, it is not possible to create a clickable link in one sheet that navigates to another sheet within the same file.
Let me be absolutely clear about why this is a serious problem:
I routinely work with large, complex spreadsheets containing dozens to hundreds of sheets. These are not “toy” spreadsheets. They are operational frameworks, logs, dashboards, and documentation systems that must live inside a single file.
In every competent spreadsheet environment (Excel, Google Sheets), this is solved with:
Sheet-to-sheet hyperlinks
Clickable navigation menus
Index / contents sheets that actually work
In Proton Sheets:
You cannot right-click a cell and link to another sheet
You cannot create an internal anchor link
You cannot build a navigable index
You are forced to scroll horizontally through endless sheet tabs like it’s 2003
That is not a workaround. That is a product failure.
Suggesting that users “just click the tabs at the bottom” is not realistic once a spreadsheet scales beyond a handful of sheets. When you are dealing with 50, 100, or 200 sheets, manual tab-hunting is slow, error-prone, and frankly absurd.
This feature is:
Not advanced
Not niche
Not optional
It is table-stakes spreadsheet functionality.
The fact that Proton Sheets shipped without internal sheet hyperlinks strongly suggests it was designed for very small, very simple spreadsheets, not real-world operational use. That puts it far behind Google Sheets and Excel in practical terms, regardless of privacy advantages.
Feature request (non-negotiable):
Ability to create hyperlinks that navigate to another sheet within the same spreadsheet
Ideally with support for targeting a specific cell (e.g. SheetX!A1)
UI support via right-click “Insert link” or formula-based linking
Until this exists, Proton Sheets is not viable for serious spreadsheet users running large, multi-sheet systems.
I want to use Proton’s ecosystem. I am actively trying to move away from Google. But missing fundamentals like this make that impossible.
Please prioritise this. It should have been there from day one.