Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated March 16, 2024)
This tip applies to Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, and Excel in Microsoft 365
Wendy wants to include page numbers in the header of her worksheet printout, but with a twist—Page 21A on page 1, Page 21B on page 2, Page 21C on page 3, etc. She wonders how to go about creating such a page numbering scheme.
There are a few ways you can go about tackling this problem, all of them involving the use of macros. If you actually want to print all the worksheets in the current workbook and none of those worksheets is over a single page in length (when printed), then the following macro will set the center section of the header as requested:
Sub PageNums1() Dim sheet As Worksheet Dim J As Integer J = 1 On Error Resume Next For Each sheet In Worksheets Sheets(J).PageSetup.CenterHeader = "Page 21" & Chr(64 + J) J = J + 1 Next End Sub
Note that the macro doesn't actually print anything; all it does is to change the header information. If you really only want to print out the current worksheet and that worksheet will require multiple pages on the printout, then the following should work just fine:
Sub PageNums2() Dim X As Integer Dim Y As Integer Dim Z As Integer Z = 1 For X = 1 To ActiveSheet.HPageBreaks.Count + 1 For Y = 1 To ActiveSheet.VPageBreaks.Count + 1 ActiveSheet.PageSetup.CenterHeader = _ "Page 21" & Chr(64 + Z) Worksheets.PrintOut Z, Z Z = Z + 1 Next Y Next X End Sub
This macro calculates pages based on the position of the horizontal (HPageBreaks) and vertical (VPageBreaks) page breaks on the printout. You could also try just working with the Pages collection, in this manner:
Sub PageNums3() Dim J As Integer For J = 1 To ActiveSheet.PageSetup.Pages.Count ActiveSheet.PageSetup.CenterHeader = "Page 21" & Chr(64 + J) Worksheets.PrintOut J, J Next J End Sub
You should note that regardless of the approach you select, you'll run into problems if the printout requires more than 26 pages.
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2024-03-16 10:35:33
J. Woolley
To avoid "problems if the printout requires more than 26 pages," substitute the following instead of Chr(64 + J):
Split(Columns(J).Address(False, False), ":")(0)
This converts relative column addresses like A:A, B:B, ..., AA:AA, AB:AB, ... into A, B, ..., AA, AB, ....
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