Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016. 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.
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, and 2016. 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
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2017-01-23 10:47:30
Dave
Mary Beth,
Allen's instructions as you noted are actually VBA code. They are what you would use to write a macro to do the task for you.
If you are relatively new to Excel, or if you are a light Excel user, then you can and should probably ignore tips that look like these.
On the other hand, if you are or are becoming a serious Excel user, then learning how to write macros can give you many more tools than you ever thought possible, particularly with repetitive tasks.
Learning to write macros is not that hard (I'm self-taught), but it requires a small base of core knowledge. Once acquired, you'd be good to learn to do -- and actually do -- anything you want. Fortunately, there are many resources available online and in books to get you over that initial hump. Excel VBA Programming for Dummies by John Walkenbach comes to mind.
Good luck!
2017-01-23 09:41:41
Mary Beth
Are these your directions?
Sub MakeTOC()
Dim w As Worksheet
Dim iRow As Integer
Dim iCol As Integer
Dim sTemp As String
I do not understand your directions. They make no since.
2017-01-21 04:57:43
Najm
Dear brother,
You really help people do better.
Thanks sharing....
Najm
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