I have found similar questions that deal with copying an entire worksheet in one workbook and pasting it to another workbook, but I am interested in simply copying an entire worksheet and pasting it to a new worksheet -- in the same workbook.
I'm in the process of converting a 2003 .xls file to 2010 .xlsm and the old method used for copying and pasting between worksheets doesn't paste with the correct row heights. My initial workaround was to loop through each row and grab the row heights from the worksheet I am copying from, then loop through and insert those values for the row heights in the worksheet I am pasting to, but the problem with this approach is that the sheet contains buttons which generate new rows which changes the row numbering and the format of the sheet is such that all rows cannot just be one width.
What I would really like to be able to do is just simply copy the entire worksheet and paste it. Here is the code from the 2003 version:
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Master").Cells.Copy
newWorksheet.Paste
I'm surprised that converting to .xlsm is causing this to break now. Any suggestions or ideas would be great.
It is simpler just to run an exact copy like below to put the copy in as the last sheet
Sub Test()
Dim ws1 As Worksheet
Set ws1 = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Master")
ws1.Copy ThisWorkbook.Sheets(Sheets.Count)
End Sub
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Master").Sheet1.Cells.Copy _
Destination:=newWorksheet.Cells
The above will copy the cells. If you really want to duplicate the entire sheet, then I'd go with #brettdj's answer.
' Assume that the code name the worksheet is Sheet1
' Copy the sheet using code name and put in the end.
' Note: Using the code name lets the user rename the worksheet without breaking the VBA code
Sheet1.Copy After:=Sheets(Sheets.Count)
' Rename the copied sheet keeping the same name and appending a string " copied"
ActiveSheet.Name = Sheet1.Name & " copied"
I really liked #brettdj's code, but then I found that when I added additional code to edit the copy, it overwrote my original sheet instead. I've tweaked his answer so that further code pointed at ws1 will affect the new sheet rather than the original.
Sub Test()
Dim ws1 as Worksheet
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Master").Copy
Set ws1 = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Master (2)")
End Sub
'Make the excel file that runs the software the active workbook
ThisWorkbook.Activate
'The first sheet used as a temporary place to hold the data
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets(1).Cells.Copy
'Create a new Excel workbook
Dim NewCaseFile As Workbook
Dim strFileName As String
Set NewCaseFile = Workbooks.Add
With NewCaseFile
Sheets(1).Select
Cells(1, 1).Select
End With
ActiveSheet.Paste
If anyone has, like I do, an Estimating workbook with a default number of visible pricing sheets, a Summary and a larger number of hidden and 'protected' worksheets full of sensitive data but may need to create additional visible worksheets to arrive at a proper price, I have variant of the above responses that creates the said visible worksheets based on a protected hidden "Master". I have used the code provided by #/jean-fran%c3%a7ois-corbett and #thanos-a in combination with simple VBA as shown below.
Sub sbInsertWorksheetAfter()
'This adds a new visible worksheet after the last visible worksheet
ThisWorkbook.Sheets.Add After:=Worksheets(Worksheets.Count)
'This copies the content of the HIDDEN "Master" worksheet to the new VISIBLE ActiveSheet just created
ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Master").Cells.Copy _
Destination:=ActiveSheet.Cells
'This gives the the new ActiveSheet a default name
With ActiveSheet
.Name = Sheet12.Name & " copied"
End With
'This changes the name of the ActiveSheet to the user's preference
Dim sheetname As String
With ActiveSheet
sheetname = InputBox("Enter name of this Worksheet")
.Name = sheetname
End With
End Sub
Related
I have a workbook that I need to create 150 copies of. I have the list of what I want to save each new workbook as in cells A1 to A150 in another workbook.
I've looked around but I can't find any code that does what I need. If it makes it easier, I could put the list into the template workbook, but would need to delete that sheet from each new workbook before saving and closing it.
This code should help you:
Sub Sample()
Dim wsToCopy As Worksheet, wsNew As Worksheet
With Sheets("Sheet1")
LastRow = Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(.Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Row
For a = 1 To LastRow
Set wsToCopy = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("TemplateSheet")
Set wsNew = ThisWorkbook.Sheets.Add
wsNew.Name = Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(a, 1).Value
wsToCopy.Cells.Copy wsNew.Cells
Next
End With
End Sub
Explaining:
At a sheet named "Sheet1", you need to have a list of the to-create sheets names, starting at the first row, always in the first column.
The macro will create a new sheet, rename-it and copy everything from the sheet "TemplateSheet". And then, will pass to the next Sheet1's row.
So basically, just name your template sheet as "TemplateSheet" and add the 150 names at the first row of "Sheet1".
You can delete the template and the Sheet1 later.
I have a plethora of Excel workbooks containing 25+ worksheets each containing 20 columns of data from range 1:500 (or 1:1000 in some cases). Frequently I am tasked with updating the "template" onto which new data is entered for new calculations. I want to be able to easily paste extant data from old worksheets into sheets with new formatting while retaining any new formatting/formulas in the new templates.
I am using VBA to open the sheet I want to copy and paste it onto the new template sheet. So far my code will copy everything from the first sheet (S1) of the to-be-copied workbook and paste it onto the first sheet (S1) of the target workbook.
I want to extend this process to go through all active sheets (do whatever it is doing now for each sheet in the workbooks). I previously was able to do this with different code but it removed the formulas in rows 503 and 506 that I need when it pasted in. Can I do a pastespecial and skip empty cells? I am new to this.
Here is my current code:
Sub CopyWS1()
Dim x As Workbook
Dim y As Workbook
Set x = Workbooks("Ch00 Avoid.xlsx")
Set y = Workbooks("Ch00 Avoid1.xlsx")
Dim LastRow As Long
Dim NextRow As Long
x.Worksheets("S1").Activate
Range("A65536").Select
ActiveCell.End(xlUp).Select
LastRow = ActiveCell.Row
Range("A2:T" & LastRow).Copy y.Worksheets("s1").Range("A1:A500")
Application.CutCopyMode = False
Range("A1").Select
End Sub
I believe that I need to use something like the following code in order to extend this across the worksheets, but I'm not sure how to iterate through the sheets since I'm specifically referencing two sheets in my above code.
Sub WorksheetLoop2()
' Declare Current as a worksheet object variable.
Dim Current As Worksheet
' Loop through all of the worksheets in the active workbook.
For Each Current In Worksheets
' Insert your code here.
' This line displays the worksheet name in a message box.
MsgBox Current.Name
Next
End Sub
I imagine that I might be able to solve this as a for loop across an index of worksheets (make a new variable and run a for loop until my index is 25 or something) as an alternative, but again, I'm not sure how to point my copy/paste from a particular sheet to another sheet. I am very new to this with semi-limited experience with Python/Java only. These VBA skills would greatly benefit me on the day to day.
The two files in question:
Ch00 Avoid
Ch00 Avoid1
This should do it. You should be able to drop this in a blank workbook just to see how it works (put some values in column A on a couple of sheets). Obviously you will replace your wbCopy and wbPaste variables, and remove the wbPaste.worksheets.add from the code (my excel was only adding 1 sheet in the new workbook). LastRow is determined per your code, looking up from column A to find the last cell. wsNameCode is used to determine the first part of your worksheets you are looking for, so you will change it to "s".
This will loop through all sheets in your copy workbook. For each of those sheets, it's going to loop 1 through 20 to see if the name equals "s" + loop number. Your wbPaste has the same sheet names, so when it finds s# on wbCopy, it is going to paste into wbPaste with the same sheet name: s1 into s1, s20 into s20, etc. I didn't put in any error handling, so if you have an s21 on your copy workbook, s21 needs to be on your paste workbook, and NumberToCopy changed to 21 (or just set it to a higher number if you plan on adding more).
You could have it just loop through the first 20 sheets, but if someone moves one it will throw it all off. This way sheet placement in the workbook is irrelevant as long as it exists in the paste workbook.
You can also turn screenupdating off if you don't want to have a seizure.
Option Explicit
Sub CopyAll()
'Define variables
Dim wbCopy As Workbook
Dim wsCopy As Worksheet
Dim wbPaste As Workbook
Dim LastRow As Long
Dim i As Integer
Dim wsNameCode As String
Dim NumberToCopy As Integer
'Set variables
i = 1
NumberToCopy = 20
wsNameCode = "Sheet"
'Set these to your workbooks
Set wbCopy = ThisWorkbook
Set wbPaste = Workbooks.Add
'These are just an example, delete when you run in your workbooks
wbPaste.Worksheets.Add
wbPaste.Worksheets.Add
'Loop through all worksheets in copy workbook
For Each wsCopy In wbCopy.Worksheets
'Reset the last row to the worksheet, reset the sheet number search to 1
LastRow = wsCopy.Cells(65536, 1).End(xlUp).Row
i = 1
'Test worksheet name to match template code (s + number)
Do Until i > NumberToCopy
If wsCopy.Name = (wsNameCode & i) Then
wsCopy.Range("A2:T" & LastRow).Copy
wbPaste.Sheets(wsNameCode & i).Paste
End If
i = i + 1
Loop
Next wsCopy
End Sub
Thank you for all of your help, everyone. I went back yesterday afternoon from scratch and ended up with the following code which, at least to my eyes, has solved what I was trying to do. The next step will be to try to make this less tedious as I have a gajillion workbooks to update. If I can find a less obnoxious way to open/update/save/close new workbooks, I will be very happy. As it stands now, however, I have to open both the example workbook and the target workbook, save both, and close...but it works.
'This VBA macro copies a range of cells from specified worksheets within one workbook to a range of cells
'on another workbook; the names of the sheets in both workbooks should be identical although can be edited to fit
Sub CopyToNewTemplate()
Dim x As Workbook
Dim y As Workbook
Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim tbc As Range
Dim targ As Range
Dim InxW As Long
Dim WshtNames As Variant
Dim WshtNameCrnt As Variant
'Specify the Workbook to copy from (x) and the workbook to copy to (y)
Set x = Workbooks("Ch00 Avoid.xlsx")
Set y = Workbooks("Ch00 Avoid1.xlsx")
'Can change the worksheet names according to what is in your workbook; both worksheets must be identical
WshtNames = Array("S1", "S2", "S3", "S4", "S5", "S6", "S7", "s8", "s9", "S10", "S11", "S12", "S13", "S14", "S15", _
"S16", "S17", "S18", "S19", "S20", "Ext1", "Ext2", "Ext3", "EFS BigAverage")
'will iterate through each worksheet in the array, copying the tbc range and pasting to the targ range
For Each WshtNameCrnt In WshtNames
With Worksheets(WshtNameCrnt)
'tbc is tobecopied, specify the range of cells to copy; targ is the target workbook range
Set tbc = x.Worksheets(WshtNameCrnt).Range("A1:T500")
Set targ = y.Worksheets(WshtNameCrnt).Range("A1:T500")
Dim LastRow As Long
Dim NextRow As Long
tbc.Copy targ
Application.CutCopyMode = False
End With
Next WshtNameCrnt
End Sub
I'm not sure if this is possible, but it's the one thing I haven't found answered accross the web.
I created one template workbook Schedule.xls that will be filled out by different people, say personA, personB and personC. I need to extract the same range from each workbook by copying it and pasting it into a master file Master.xls, so that I can get the information from each person into this masterbook.
This Master.xls will have as much sheets as persons filling Schedule.xls.
For example, let's stay with those 3 persons: personA, personB and personC.
Once they generate their schedule, I want to get that information and copy it into Master.xls, but in separate sheets named personA, personB and personC.
I want to do this by setting a cell in Schedule.xls, say A1, where people can choose a value between personA, personB and personC.
This way I can create a dynamic reference for the sheet in Master.xls. in which the macro will paste the info.
`Range("B2.D5").Select
Selection.Copy
Workbooks.Open Filename:= _
"C:\My Documents\Master.xlsx"
Sheets(*REFERENCE*).Select
Range("B2").Select
ActiveSheet.Paste
Range("A1").Select
Application.CutCopyMode = False
ActiveWorkbook.Save
ActiveWorkbook.Close`
What should I write instead of REFERENCE to set the sheet I want to write on?
Thanks in advance.
I'll suggest a simple, no-code approach. Then, I'll give you some VBA code for your specific request.
Place two workbooks, Carl's SlaveWB.xlsx and your Master.slxm, in the same folder for simplicity. Open the worksheet you want to sync (1-way copy) in both spreadsheets. Create these sheets manually for this simple example. Now, click in cell A1 in the master sheet. While in edit mode, type "=" then click in cell A1 in Carl's worksheet (in the other workbook). Your sheets are now linked. You can do this not just for A1 but the entire worksheet -- just copy/paste cell A1 to the entire worksheet. Now, Carl can take his workboook on the road. Here is how he check's in. He simply copies his latest workbook into your predesignated folder. When you open your master workbook, it will automatically pull in all the data from Carl's "checked-in" workbook.
If you prefer to copy from one workbook to another (to capture formatting), it is not difficult.
First, rename or delete the old "Carl" worksheet in master. Here is code for deleting a worksheet by name. If the name of the sheet in the master is stored in Carl's "Sheet1" worksheet, cell A1, you can pass this as the value of WSName: Workbooks("SlaveWB").Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(1,1).Value.
'DeleteWorksheet(WSName)
Public Function DeleteWorksheet(WSName As String)
'If Not IIf(IsNull(DebugMode), False, DebugMode) Then On Error GoTo FoundError
If Not Range("DebugMode").Value Then On Error Resume Next
Dim WorksheetExists As Boolean
DeleteWorksheet = False
'if no worksheet name provided, abort
If Len(WSName) < 1 Then Exit Function
'if worksheet exists, delete
WorksheetExists = False
On Error Resume Next
WorksheetExists = (Sheets(WSName).Name <> "") 'if worksheet exists, set WorksheetExists = True
On Error GoTo FoundError
If WorksheetExists Then Sheets(WSName).Delete 'if worksheet exists, delete
DeleteWorksheet = True 'function succeeded (deleted worksheet if it existed)
Exit Function
FoundError:
On Error Resume Next
DeleteWorksheet = False
Debug.Print "Error: DeleteWorksheet(" & WSName & ") failed to delete worksheet. "
End Function
Next, copy the revised worksheet from Carl's workbook to the master. The code below copies a worksheet from srcWBName to tgtWBName and names the sheet whatever you like in tgtWBName. I reocmmend you keep the code only only in the master spreadsheet. It is too risky to put the same code in every copy held by every user. And, it will be hard to manage code updates.
Sub CopyWSBetweenWBs(srcWBName As String, srcWSName As String, _
tgtWBName As String, tgtWSName As String)
'srcWBName - name of PersonA's workbook
'srcWSName - name of worksheet to copy from Person A's workbook
'tgtWBName - target workbook, the master
'tgtWSName - what you want to call the worksheet after copying it to the target/master.
' If you want this sheetname to be taken from a cell, just pass the cell
' reference. For example, this can be
' Workbooks(srcWBName).Sheets(srcWSName).Cells(1,1).Value
Dim srcWB As Workbook
Dim srcWS As Worksheet
Dim tgtWB As Workbook
Dim tgtWS As Worksheet
'Create XL objects
Set srcWB = Workbooks(srcWBName)
Set srcWS = srcWB.Worksheets(srcWSName)
Set tgtWB = Workbooks(tgtWBName)
Set tgtWS = tgtWB.Worksheets(tgtWSName)
' Start at the source
srcWB.Activate
srcWS.Activate
' Copy to target workbook
srcWS.Copy Before:=tgtWB.Sheets(1) '<~~ copy to beginning of workbook
' After copying the worksheet, it is active, so you can rename it now.
ActiveSheet.Name = tgtWSName
End Sub
That's it. I hope this helps.
I have an existing workbook that will be used by multiple users (who will name the workbook uniquely - I can set one Workbook Codename if needed though, though don't know how to do this?).
I need to create a macro that opens a new workbook (which presumably I won't know the name of? as it could be 'Book1', 'Book2', 'Book3' etc?), then returns to the original workbook where the macro is stored, and copies several (can do one at a time if needed) sheets (that I DO know the names of these sheets) and pastes them as new sheets into the new workbook that I created at the start. The macro does not need to Save the file (in fact it's preferable that it doesn't as I want the user to save the new workbook wherever is most convenient for the user).
I have attempted to show what the macro would do, showing the obvious problem that I do not know the names of the workbooks I am creating/copying from/pasting into.
Any help, much appreciated!
Sub CopySheetintoNewWorkbook()
'Macro opens new / blank workbook (name unknown?)'
Workbooks.Add
'Macro goes back to original workbook where macro is saved (of which the name is unknown to the macro - i.e., users can and will change it)'
Windows("UnknownWorkbookName-1").Activate
'Macro goes to a sheet which can be named and will be known, so this is no problem'
Sheets("KnownSheet").Select
'Macro creates a copy of the sheet and pastes it as a new sheet within the new, unknown named workbook'
Application.CutCopyMode = False
Sheets("KnownSheet").Copy Before:=Workbooks("UnknownWorkbookName-2").Sheets(1)
End Sub
We want to copy Sheet1 and Sheet2.
This relies on a tiny trick:
Sub qwerty()
Dim wb1 As Workbook, wbNEW As Workbook
Set wb1 = ActiveWorkbook
Sheets("Sheet1").Copy
Set wbNEW = ActiveWorkbook
wb1.Sheets("Sheet2").Copy after:=wbNEW.Sheets(1)
End Sub
When the first .Copy is performed, a new workbook is created and it becomes the ActiveWorkbook ........the rest is easy.
EDIT#1:
If we have a group of sheets to be copied, then we can create an array of sheet names and loop through the array, copying one sheet at a time:
Sub qwerty()
Dim wb1 As Workbook, wbNEW As Workbook
Dim ary() As String, s As String, i As Long
s = "Larry,Moe,Curly"
ary = Split(s, ",")
Set wb1 = ActiveWorkbook
i = 1
For Each a In ary
If i = 1 Then
Sheets(a).Copy
Set wbNEW = ActiveWorkbook
Else
wb1.Sheets(a).Copy after:=wbNEW.Sheets(1)
End If
i = 2
Next a
wbNEW.Activate
End Sub
I've been able to make an exact copy of a worksheet and add it to the workbook with:
Sub Test()
Dim ws1 As Worksheet
Set ws1 = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Detailed List")
ws1.Copy ThisWorkbook.Sheets(Sheets.Count)
End Sub
but I'm trying to have the copied worksheet paste over another worksheet. For example, I'm trying to copy the worksheet "Detailed List" and have it paste and overwrite "Testing Sheet", but all I'm able to do with the code above is make another worksheet. Any help would be great.
You nearly had it, and your own solution works...however, in the efforts of completeness...
Sub Test()
Dim ws1 As Worksheet
Dim ws1Copy As Worksheet
Set ws1 = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Detailed List")
ws1.Copy ThisWorkbook.Sheets(Sheets.Count) 'we can't set the copied object directly to a varaiable, but it becomes the active sheet by default
Set ws1Copy = ActiveSheet 'assign the newly copied activesheet to a variable
Application.DisplayAlerts = False 'supress warnings, the delete method gives the user a warning
Sheets("Testing Sheet").Delete 'delete the testing sheet
Application.DisplayAlerts = True 'un-supress the warnings
ws1Copy.Name = "Testing Sheet" 'change the name of the copied sheet to the testing sheet.
End Sub
So I ended up doing this:
Worksheets("Detailed List").Range("A7").CurrentRegion.Copy
Worksheets("Detailed Copy").Range("A7").PasteSpecial
I first just copied the Detailed List before I started running the macro. Then I highlighted all the data points and titles, and overwrite the Copy. I needed to do this because I am making a macro that whenever someone changes a cell in the "Detailed List", I need to display the Old Value that used to be in the cell, so by having essentially two copies of the List, I can first make the comparisons, and then just copy the list over and over, so it automatically updates itself to any changes that have been made.