External file attachment to a cell

Hi all,
Is there any way to attach a file to a cell so it's displayed as an icon that you can click and open the file? The file itself must be stored inside the main spreadsheet file.
Thank you in advance!
Regards
Nik

Thank you so much for all your help!
Wayne, Jerry is right. You can actually store hyperlinks to webpages and 'emails'. The link specified in the cell will open up your default browser as long as it's an URL starting with 'http://'. So no luck creating links to local files via 'file:///'.
I hope it will be fixed soon. The best solution would be to allow to 'attach' files that are displayed as icons and keep those files inside the .numbers itself (like in a container). Or have a choice to link to a file stored somewhere else as an option.
Thank you!
Regards,
Nik

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What was wrong with the previous answers given on your other thread:
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If there's a continuing issue, stay with the same thread, don't just ask the same question again and again, it's really Pi**es people off and causes confusion as not everyone will be familiar with what answers you've already had. You're just wasting people's time by doing that.
As already mentioned before, convert your BLOB to a CLOB and then to XMLTYPE where it can be treated as XML and written out to file in a variety of ways including the way I showed you on the other thread.
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