VBA - Manipulate Specific Sheet Data With Macro - Not Activesheet - vba

Question

I have 10 sheets in a workbook - These sheets were imported from individual workbooks - These workbooks were extracts from different monitoring tools
I need to apply a filter across all 10 worksheets, however, not all the sheets are in the same format/structure.
With 6 of the worksheets, the column headers are the same and in the same order.
The remaining 4 sheets have different headers. For example: The filter needs to look for a header name Status - This works for the 6 sheets that have the same structure, however, the other 4 sheets have the following:
wsheet1:
User Status instead of Status - I need to change the header to Status
wsheet2:
Current_Status instead of Status - I need to change the header to Status
Below is sample code that is supposed to manipulate the specified sheet in in order to have it "look" the same as the others, however, I am having some really annoying issues where the code isn't applied to the sheet specified and is instead applied to the "Activesheet" when the macro is executed.
Here is the code I have:
Sub arrangeSheets()
Dim lastCol As Long, idCount As Long, nameCount As Long, headerRow As Long
Dim worksh As Integer, WS_Count As Integer, i As Integer, count As Integer
Dim rng As Range, cel As Range, rngData As Range
Dim worksheetexists As Boolean
worksh = Application.Sheets.count
worksheetexists = False
headerRow = 1 'row number with headers
lastCol = Cells(headerRow, Columns.count).End(xlToLeft).Column 'last column in header row
idCount = 1
nameCount = 1
' Set WS_Count equal to the number of worksheets in the active
' workbook.
WS_Count = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets.count
'If Application.Match finds no match it will throw an error so we need to skip them
On Error Resume Next
For x = 1 To worksh
If Worksheets(x).Name = "wsheet1" Then
worksheetexists = True
Set rng = Sheets("wsheet1").Range(Cells(headerRow, 1), Cells(headerRow, lastCol)) 'header range
With Worksheets("wsheet1").Name
Rows(2).Delete
Rows(1).Delete
count = Application.Match("*USER STATUS*", Worksheets("wsheet1").Range("A1:AZ1"), 0)
If Not IsError(count) Then
For Each cel In rng 'loop through each cell in header
If cel = "*USER STATUS*" Then 'check if header is "Unit ID"
cel = "STATUS" & idCount 'rename "Unit ID" using idCount
idCount = idCount + 1 'increment idCount
End If
Next cel
End If
End With
Exit For
End If
Next x
End Sub

Answer 1

Consider using ., in the With-End with section to refer to the Worksheet mentioned:
The Like in If cel Like "*USER STATUS*" works with the *, thus will be evaluated to True for 12USER STATUS12 or anything similar.
The count variable should be declared as variant, thus it can keep "errors" in itself.
This is how the code could look like:
With Worksheets("wsheet1")
.Rows(2).Delete
.Rows(1).Delete
Count = Application.Match("*USER STATUS*", .Range("A1:AZ1"), 0)
If Not IsError(Count) Then
For Each cel In Rng 'loop through each cell in header
If cel Like "*USER STATUS*" Then 'check if header is "Unit ID"
cel = "STATUS" & idCount 'rename "Unit ID" using idCount
idCount = idCount + 1 'increment idCount
End If
Next cel
End If
End With

Answer 2

If you want the same headers across all sheets in the workbook you could just copy the headers from the first sheet and paste them on each sheet.
This wouldn't work if your column order is different across sheets, but from the example you gave it's just renaming columns rather than re-ordering?
Sub CorrectHeaders()
Dim cpyRng As Range
With ThisWorkbook
If .Worksheets.count > 1 Then
With .Worksheets(1)
Set cpyRng = .Range(.Cells(1, 1), .Cells(1, .Columns.count).End(xlToLeft))
End With
.Sheets.FillAcrossSheets cpyRng
End If
End With
End Sub
If the column headers are in different orders, but you just want to replace any cell that contains the text "Status" with just "Status" then you could use Replace. You may want to add an extra condition of MatchCase:=True.
Sub Correct_Status()
Dim wrkSht As Worksheet
For Each wrkSht In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
wrkSht.Cells(1, 1).EntireRow.Replace What:="*Status*", Replacement:="Status", LookAt:=xlWhole
Next wrkSht
End Sub

Answer 3

I have additional solution which has also helped with this issue. Code below:
Sub ManipulateSheets()
Dim worksh As Integer
Dim worksheetexists As Boolean
worksh = Application.Sheets.count
worksheetexists = False
'If Application.Match finds no match it will throw an error so we need to skip them
On Error Resume Next
Worksheets("wSheet1").Activate
With Worksheets("wSheet1")
.Rows(2).Delete
.Rows(1).Delete
End With
Worksheets("wSheet2").Activate
With Worksheets("wSheet2")
.Rows(2).Delete
End With
End Sub