Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, and Excel in Microsoft 365. 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: Retrieving Worksheet Names.
Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated March 11, 2023)
This tip applies to Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, and Excel in Microsoft 365
If you have a very large number of worksheets in a workbook, you might want to retrieve the names of those worksheets and put then on their own worksheet. For instance, you may want them in one place so you can use them in a table of contents or in some other fashion. The following macro, GetSheets, will quickly retrieve the names of the worksheets in the current workbook and put them in the current workbook, beginning at whatever cell is currently selected.
Please Note:
This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, and Excel in Microsoft 365. 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:
Sub GetSheets()
Dim w As Worksheet
Dim iRow As Integer
Dim iCol As Integer
iRow = Selection.Row
iCol = Selection.Column
For Each w in Worksheets
Cells(iRow, iCol) = w.Name
iRow = iRow + 1
Next w
End Sub
If you want to make an actual table of contents where the sheet names are actually hyperlinks to the worksheets, you could modify the macro in the following manner:
Sub MakeTOC()
Dim w As Worksheet
Dim iRow As Integer
Dim iCol As Integer
Dim sTemp As String
iRow = Selection.Row
iCol = Selection.Column
For Each w in Worksheets
Cells(iRow, iCol) = w.Name
sTemp = "'" & w.Name & "'!A1"
ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=Cells(iRow, iCol), _
Address:="", SubAddress:=sTemp, TextToDisplay:=w.Name
iRow = iRow + 1
Next w
End Sub
Note:
ExcelTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Excel training. This tip (11679) applies to Microsoft Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, and Excel in Microsoft 365. You can find a version of this tip for the older menu interface of Excel here: Retrieving Worksheet Names.
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2023-03-11 09:57:33
J. Woolley
For more on this subject, see my comment dated 2022-06-22 here: https://excelribbon.tips.net/T007094_Jumping_to_a_Specific_Worksheet.html
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