When you are starting a new workbook, it is very common to name each worksheet after a different month of the year. If you do this quite a bit, you know it can be tiresome to rename each worksheet, in turn, to exactly what you need.
The following macro was developed to help in these situations. It checks the names of the worksheets in your workbook, renaming them to the months of the year if they begin with the letters "Sheet". If there are not enough sheets in the workbook, it adds sheets, as necessary, for each month of the year.
Sub DoMonths() Dim J As Integer Dim K As Integer For J = 1 To 12 If J <= Sheets.Count Then If Left(Sheets(J).Name, 5) = "Sheet" Then Sheets(J).Name = MonthName(J) Else Sheets.Add.Move after:=Sheets(Sheets.Count) ActiveSheet.Name = MonthName(J) End If Else Sheets.Add.Move after:=Sheets(Sheets.Count) ActiveSheet.Name = MonthName(J) End If Next J For J = 1 To 12 If Sheets(J).Name <> MonthName(J) Then For K = J + 1 To Sheets.Count If Sheets(K).Name = MonthName(J) Then Sheets(K).Move Before:=Sheets(J) End If Next K End If Next J Sheets(1).Activate End Sub
The last step in the macro is that it places the worksheets in proper order, for the months 1 through 12. The result is that if you have any other worksheets left in the workbook (in other words, you had some that did not begin with the letters "Sheet", then those worksheets end up at the end of the workbook, after the 12 months.
Note that the macro utilizes the MonthName function, which is built into VBA. It returns the full name of the month referenced by number (1 through 12) passed to it. (If you try to use it with a number outside that range, it returns an error.)
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2017-05-27 11:57:25
Willy Vanhaelen
This tip adds the month sheets to an existing workbook.
When you often need a new workbook with only 12 sheets named after each month then this small macro will do the job:
Sub MonthsWorkbook()
Dim X As Integer
Workbooks.Add
X = Sheets.Count
If X < 12 Then Sheets.Add Count:=12 - X
For X = 1 To 12
Sheets(X).Name = MonthName(X)
Next X
End Sub
You can place this macro in your personal workbook so it's available whenever you need it.
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