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: Returning a Worksheet Name.
Looking for a way to put the name of your worksheet directly into a cell? Excel makes this easy through the use of the CELL function. If you include the following in a cell, Excel returns the full path of the workbook, along with the sheet name:
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: 
=CELL("filename")
For instance, if you entered this into a cell in the Sheet1 worksheet of the MyWB workbook, the information returned by Excel might be something like C:\My Documents\[MyWB.xls]Sheet1 (depending, of course, on the drive and directory in which the workbook is saved).
To return just the worksheet name from this value, you could use the following in your cell:
=MID(CELL("filename",A1),(FIND("]",CELL("filename",A1))+1),50)
This will work for any worksheet name up to 50 characters in length. (If you routinely use different lengths, simply change the value in the formula.) Continuing the earlier example, Excel would return Sheet1 as the result.
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2016-02-09 10:04:00
Maria
Micky, this worked just as I needed. Thank you very much. Thank you also, Chuck. I did try your suggestion as well, but it kept opening an explorer window.
Appreciate both your responses!!
Maria
2016-02-09 09:12:23
Michael (Micky) Avidan
@Maria,
Try to run the following macro:
Sub MakeSheetsList()
SC = Sheets.Count
Columns(1).Clear
For SH = 1 To SC
Cells(SH, 1) = Sheets(SH).Name
Next
End Sub
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Michael (Micky) Avidan
“Microsoft® Answers" - Wiki author & Forums Moderator
“Microsoft®” MVP – Excel (2009-2016)
ISRAEL
2016-02-08 14:45:02
Chuck rese
Maria,
I use a simple solution to this problem. I use the formula shown, somewhere in the sheet whose name you want. Then in the second sheet, just enter a formula that references the cell in the first sheet that has the name in it.
For example:
in sheet1, cell A1
=MID(CELL("filename",A1),FIND("]",CELL("filename",A1))+1,31)
in sheet2, cell A1
=Sheet1!$A$1
Not particularly elegant, but it works.
2016-02-08 10:00:51
Maria
Is there a way to use this to get the names of the other sheets in the same file? I am looking for a way to list all the sheet names in the first sheet (a summary type page). Thank you.
2016-02-08 07:16:29
allen
I tried using this in a subroutine but must be doing something wrong. Can you provide an example?
2016-02-07 10:49:08
Michael (Micky) Avidan
@Jim,
My answer to your question is simple - usually users are looking for the shortest(!) formula which provides the merchandise - such as:
=MID(CELL("filename",A1),FIND("]",CELL("filename",A1))+1,31)
(Please note that a worksheet's name cannot exceed 31 characters).
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Michael (Micky) Avidan
“Microsoft® Answers" - Wiki author & Forums Moderator
“Microsoft®” MVP – Excel (2009-2016)
ISRAEL
2016-02-06 11:01:57
Jim
@Allen - you'll always get a "#VALUE" error using a function that returns the file-path in a book that hasn't been saved - because until you save the file, there is no path (location on the disk) for excel to return.
2016-02-06 10:52:13
Jim
Why not use RIGHT instead of MID to return just the sheet name?
=RIGHT(CELL("filename"),LEN(CELL("filename"))-FIND("]",CELL("filename")))
This will return everything to the right of the "]", regardless of the length of the sheet-name.
2016-02-06 09:16:50
Allen Cody
This is a handy tip, and I'll try it in a VBA subroutine to see if it works.
I tried this in my personal.xlsb file (worksheet formula) and got a "value" error, also in a new, unsaved file "book1" with the same result. When I opened a saved *.xlsm file, it worked fine.
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