Exporting Some Sheets from Excel Workbook to PDF - vba

Question

I am working on writing a VBA code to export some of the sheets in excel to same PDF. I have several chart sheets in my excel file each of which name ends with "(name)_Chart".
I want to export all sheets with names ending wioth chart to one PDF file.
Here is the code I am trying to write.
Sub FindWS()
'look if it at least contains part of the name
Dim s As Worksheet
Dim strPath As String
strPath = ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\"
For Each s In ThisWorkbook.Sheets
If InStr(1, s.Name, Chart) Then
s.Activate
ActiveSheet.ExportAsFixedFormat xlTypePDF, strPath & s.Name & ".pdf"
Exit Sub
End If
Next s
End Sub
This code is not limting export to only the chart sheets but exporting thy whole workbook. Can anyone help me with figurint out whats is missing in my code.
Thanks!
MODIFIED CODE:
Sub FindWS()
'look if it at least contains part of the name
Dim s As Worksheet
Dim strPath As String
strPath = ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\"
For Each s In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
If InStr(1, s.Name, "Chart") = 0 Then
' Hide the sheet so it is not exported as PDF
s.Visible = False
End If
Next s
With ActiveWorkbook
.ExportAsFixedFormat xlTypePDF, strPath & "TEST.pdf"
End With
End Sub

Answer 1

I am surprised that your code is running in the first place :) You should have actually got an error run time error '13', type mismatch
Sheets and Worksheets are two different things in Excel
The Worksheets collection is a collection of all the Worksheet objects in the specified or active workbook. Each Worksheet object represents a worksheet. Whereas the Sheets collection, on the other hand, consist of not only a collection of worksheets but also other types of sheets to include Chart sheets, Excel 4.0 macro sheets and Excel 5.0 dialog sheets.
So if you declare your object as Worksheet
Dim s As Worksheet
Then ensure that while looping you loop through the correct collection
For Each s In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
and not
For Each s In ThisWorkbook.Sheets
else you will get a run time error '13', type mismatch
FOLLOWUP (Based on Comments)
# Siddharth: 1. Yes, I want to export Chart sheets that ends with name "Chart". 2. I want all those charts in one PDF and the name of the PDF should be the "original" file name. (I will have to save the final PDF files in different location so there will be no overlapping of files.) – datacentric
Option Explicit
Sub Sample()
Dim ws As Object
Dim strPath As String, OriginalName As String, Filename As String
On Error GoTo Whoa
'~~> Get activeworkbook path
strPath = ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\"
'~~> Get just the name without extension and path
OriginalName = Left(ActiveWorkbook.Name, (InStrRev(ActiveWorkbook.Name, ".", -1, vbTextCompare) - 1))
'~~> PDF File name
Filename = strPath & OriginalName & ".pdf"
'~~> Loop through Sheets Collesction
For Each ws In ActiveWorkbook.Sheets
'~~> Check if it is a Chart Sheet and also it ends in "Chart"
If ws.Type = 3 And UCase(Right(Trim(ws.Name), 5)) = "CHART" Then
ws.Visible = True
Else
ws.Visible = False
End If
Next ws
'~~> Export to pdf
ActiveWorkbook.ExportAsFixedFormat xlTypePDF, Filename
LetsContinue:
Exit Sub
Whoa:
MsgBox Err.Description
Resume LetsContinue
End Sub

Answer 2

This code will look through all the sheets. If the sheet name doesn't match it will hide it. When it's finished that it exports all visible sheets into one PDF. Make sure yuo don't save the Excel file afterwards or the sheets will remain hidden.
Of course this code is not tested so if you have issues ask back (or try and resolve themself as you may learn something)
Sub FindWS()
'look if it at least contains part of the name
Dim s As Worksheet
Dim strPath As String
strPath = ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\"
For Each s In ThisWorkbook.Sheets
If InStr(1, s.Name, "Chart") = 0 Then
' Hide the sheet so it is not exported as PDF
s.Visible = False
End If
Next s
' Export all sheets as PDF
ActiveSheet.ExportAsFixedFormat xlTypePDF, strPath & "TEST.pdf"
End Sub