Excel VBA: How to combine specific worksheets from different workbooks? - vba

Question

I am still very new to VBA and am trying to combine certain worksheets from different workbooks.
For example:
I have a workbook called "One" with multiple worksheets (A,B,C,D).
I have another workbook called "Two" with multiple worksheets (E,F,G,H).
I want to take worksheet A from workbook One and worksheets F and G from workbook Two. I wish to put these different worksheets in a new workbook called "Three."
My fields in worksheets A and F are in the exact same format, so I also wish to combine these two worksheets and put F data in the same fields under the A data, as soon as my cells containing A data finishes.
Could anyone help me with this code??
If anyone also has any links to VBA for beginners that would be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

Take a look at example:
'enforce declaration of variables
Option Explicit
Sub CombineWorkbooks()
Dim sWbkOne As String, sWbkTwo As String
Dim wbkOne As Workbook, wbkTwo As Workbook, wbkThree As Workbook
Dim wshSrc As Worksheet, wshDst As Worksheet
On Error GoTo Err_CombineWorkbooks
'get the path
sWbkOne = GetWbkPath("Open workbook 'One'")
sWbkTwo = GetWbkPath("Open workbook 'Two'")
'in case of "Cancel"
If sWbkOne = "" Or sWbkTwo = "" Then
MsgBox "You have to open two workbooks to be able to continue...", vbInformation, "Information"
GoTo Exit_CombineWorkbooks
End If
'open workbooks: 'One' and 'Two'
Set wbkOne = Workbooks.Open(sWbkOne)
Set wbkTwo = Workbooks.Open(sWbkTwo)
'create new one - destination workbook
Set wbkThree = Workbooks.Add
'define destination worksheet
Set wshDst = wbkThree.Worksheets(1)
'start copying worksheets
'A
Set wshSrc = wbkOne.Worksheets("A")
wshSrc.UsedRange.Copy wshDst.Range("A1")
'F
Set wshSrc = wbkTwo.Worksheets("F")
wshSrc.UsedRange.Copy wshDst.Range("A1").End(xlDown)
'G
Set wshSrc = wbkTwo.Worksheets("G")
wshSrc.UsedRange.Copy wshDst.Range("A1").End(xlDown)
'done!
Exit_CombineWorkbooks:
On Error Resume Next
Set wbkThree = Nothing
If Not wbkTwo Is Nothing Then wbkTwo.Close SaveChanges:=False
Set wbkTwo = Nothing
If Not wbkOne Is Nothing Then wbkOne.Close SaveChanges:=False
Set wbkOne = Nothing
Set wshDst = Nothing
Set wshSrc = Nothing
Exit Sub
Err_CombineWorkbooks:
MsgBox Err.Description, vbExclamation, Err.Number
Resume Exit_CombineWorkbooks
End Sub
Function GetWbkPath(ByVal initialTitle) As String
Dim retVal As Variant
retVal = Application.GetOpenFilename("Excel files(*.xlsx),*.xlsx", 0, initialTitle, , False)
If CStr(retVal) = CStr(False) Then retVal = ""
GetWbkPath = retVal
End Function
Note: Above code has been written ad-hoc, so it may not be perfect.
[EDIT2]
If you would like to copy data into different sheets, please, replace corresponding code with below, but firstly remove these lines:
'define destination worksheet
Set wshDst = wbkThree.Worksheets(1)
later:
'start copying data
'A
Set wshDst = wbkThree.Worksheets.Add(After:=wbkThree.Worksheets(wbkThree.Worksheets.Count))
wshDst.Name = "A"
Set wshSrc = wbkOne.Worksheets("A")
wshSrc.UsedRange.Copy wshDst.Range("A1")
'F
Set wshSrc = wbkTwo.Worksheets("F")
Set wshDst = wbkThree.Worksheets.Add(After:=wbkThree.Worksheets(wbkThree.Worksheets.Count))
wshDst.Name = "F"
wshSrc.UsedRange.Copy wshDst.Range("A1")
'G
Set wshSrc = wbkTwo.Worksheets("G")
Set wshDst = wbkThree.Worksheets.Add(After:=wbkThree.Worksheets(wbkThree.Worksheets.Count))
wshDst.Name = "G"
wshSrc.UsedRange.Copy wshDst.Range("A1")
Good luck!