Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, Excel in Microsoft 365, and 2021. If you are using an earlier version (Excel 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Excel, click here: Using Go To to Jump to a Chart Sheet.
Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated December 16, 2023)
This tip applies to Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, Excel in Microsoft 365, and 2021
When you want to jump to a specific worksheet in a workbook, you can use the Go To feature of Excel to make the jump painless, in the following manner:
This works great for regular worksheets, but it won't work if you want to jump to a chart sheet. Why? Because Go To is used to jump to specific cells (in this case, cell A1 on MySheet), and chart sheets have no cells you can reference.
If you want a quick way to jump to a chart sheet, you will need to resort to a macro. You can have the macro ask for a chart sheet name, and then use the Activate or Select methods with the sheet name. The pertinent line of the macro—the one that does the actual "jumping"—can be either of these:
Sheets("MyChart").Activate Sheets("MyChart").Select
All you need to do is substitute the proper name of the chart sheet in place of "MyChart."
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2023-12-18 12:34:47
J. Woolley
For related discussion, see https://excelribbon.tips.net/T003591_Picking_Worksheets_Quickly.html
and https://excelribbon.tips.net/T007094_Jumping_to_a_Specific_Worksheet.html
2023-12-17 17:23:07
Tomek
I think, clicking on the tab for that chart sheet is still easiest, but if there are so many sheets that you don't see all of them, you can right click on the grey area to the left of the tabs and select the sheet or chart in the Activate dialog box that opens.
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