Hyperlinks in Excel output

I've seen many conversations on this topic but never a satisfactory solution. So, I have excel hyperlinks that are built from an equation something like = Hyperlink(A3,"View"), where "A3" is the URL address (e.g., www.example.com) in a hidden column. The idea is to display the hyperlink "View" in the column rather than the actual URL, which can run 40+ characters long.
When a .PDF is generated from this excel file, the hyperlink does not work. My understanding is that this is because Adobe is unable to recognize the Excel equation as being a hyperlink. One way around this is to copy the column with he equation into another program, such as MS Word and then copy it back into Excel. When the column is "laundered" through Word, Adobe can now recognize the formula as a hyperlink.
Unfortunately, when generating a lot of these documents with hundreds of hyperlinks, it is a slow, manual process.
Is there a way to have pdf that recognize the equation "=hyperlink(..." as a hyperlink in the pdf document?
Thanks
PS: I was also trying to do this with hyperlinks in Tableau, but figured the Excel was the more likely to have a solution.

I've tried a number of ways, with several different products but typically, I use the "Save to Adobe PDF" option in Excel and then Convert to PDF.
If there is another way that yields gets around this issue, please let me know.

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