Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Excel in Office 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: Using Go To to Jump to a Chart Sheet.
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:
Please Note:
This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Excel in Office 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: 
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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ExcelTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Excel training. This tip (7735) applies to Microsoft Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Excel in Office 365. You can find a version of this tip for the older menu interface of Excel here: Using Go To to Jump to a Chart Sheet.
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2018-07-05 10:18:01
J. Woolley
Please consider the SHEET::NAME technique discussed here:
http://dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2018/07/02/hyperlink-formula-events/#comment-1045646
2018-04-23 03:08:54
Go To is very powerfull for selecting fields with the same attributes, especially GoTo "Blanks" or "Errors". For example you can easily select all fields with errors and change backround color to red or highlight blank fields with missing informations.
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