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: Printing a Worksheet List.
In complex workbooks that contain many worksheets, it is not unusual to need a list of the different worksheets. Once you have the list, you can print it or use it in some other fashion, such as to create a table of contents for your workbook. The following macro, GetSheets, quickly retrieves the names of the worksheets in the current workbook. It places them in the current worksheet, starting at cell A1 and then working downwards.
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 j As Integer
Dim NumSheets As Integer
NumSheets = Sheets.Count
For j = 1 To NumSheets
Cells(j, 1) = Sheets(j).Name
Next j
End Sub
This macro will overwrite anything in a cell it needs in the current workbook, so you should make sure you don't need anything in column A of the worksheet. If you don't want to overwrite anything, make sure you create a new worksheet and then run the macro from that worksheet.
Once the list of worksheets is created, you can format it as desired, and then print it out.
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2016-09-02 12:08:16
Tony O
Further to my previous post, I have now found out where I went wrong and now everything works fine. I had missed a ' sign out and typed "" and not "'".
2016-09-02 09:15:49
Tony O
Thank you for this tip.
I have added the following command which will make sure that the results will always be in the tab called Index
Worksheets("Index").Activate
Alex B's addition works well except I have some tab names that contain spaces and so the links to these tabs do not work. i.e. Tab data.
Is there a way to have the hyperlink adapt the tab name to match what it is expecting?
2016-09-02 00:09:44
Philip
One useful extension of this code is to embed it into a worksheet that you might call "Index" and have it refresh each time the Index sheet activates. Then, by copying this Index sheet into any workbook you have, you get an automatic indexing sheet in a couple of mouse clicks ...
2016-08-27 21:10:27
Alex B
I'm sure this is not the most elegant code but if you replace
Cells(j, 1) = Sheets(j).Name
With the following 2 lines of code, the list will have hyperlinks back to each of the sheets in the list (goes to cell A1)
strSheetName_Addr = "'" & Sheets(j).Name & "'!A1"
ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks.Add anchor:=Cells(j, 1), Address:="", SubAddress:=strSheetName_Addr, TextToDisplay:=Sheets(j).Name
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