select multiple sheets for printing at once - excel

Question

I'm trying to write code to have several Sheets in a file printed in one print job.
The Sheets to be printed are created dynamically; their names and the number of sheets differ each time, but I know that I want to print all sheets in the workbook apart from Keep1 and Keep2 (In real 7 different sheet names).
The reason I want to print all sheets in one job is that it could be many sheets, and this would mean a long wait and lots of print job pop-ups.
To realize the above, I thought of creating a selection of the sheets I want to print and then order to print.
I wrote the following:
Sub printtest()
Dim arr As Variant, sht As Worksheet
arr = Array("Keep1", "Keep2")
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
For Each sht In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
If Not UBound(Filter(arr, sht.Name, True, vbtruecompare)) >= 0 Then
With sht.PageSetup
.Zoom = False
.FitToPagesWide = 1
End With
sht.Select False
End If
Next sht
SelectedSheets.PrintOut
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
End Sub
After running the code, I run into the following:
sht.Select False adds up each Sheet meeting the conditions to the current selection, but since the button is on active sheet Keep1 this sheet is part of the selection (and should not be):
The .FitToPagesWide = 1 is performed for each Sheet in the selection, but .FitToPagesTall is also set to 1 (I want to keep this as Automatic, but don't know how to.
I don't know how to reference the selection in my print job properly.
I tried:
sht.PrintOut which results in Run-time error 91 (Object variable or With block variable not set).
SelectedSheets.PrintOut which results ion Run-time error 424 (Object required).
My vba knowledge is limited and I can't find a way to reference the selected pages for the printout.
Thanks for looking into this and explaining what is wrong in this approach.

Answer 1

Print Multiple Worksheets
You rarely need to select anything which is shown in the following code.
It writes the worksheet names to the keys of a dictionary, which are actually an array, and uses this array (the keys) to reference the worksheets to be printed.
Sub PrintTest()
Dim Exceptions() As Variant: Exceptions = Array("Keep1", "Keep2")
Dim dict As Object: Set dict = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
Dim ws As Worksheet
For Each ws In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
If IsError(Application.Match(ws.Name, Exceptions, 0)) Then
With ws.PageSetup
.Zoom = False
.FitToPagesWide = 1
.FitToPagesTall = 2
End With
dict.Add ws.Name, Empty
End If
Next ws
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets(dict.Keys).PrintOut
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
End Sub

Answer 2

You could try to make a string with only the worksheet names you want, excluding Keep1 and Keep2. Then take that string into an unidimensional array and use that array as your selection of worksheets:
Dim wk As Worksheet
Dim StringWk As String
Dim ArrayWk As Variant
'string of wk names
For Each wk In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
If wk.Name <> "Keep1" And wk.Name <> "Keep2" Then StringWk = StringWk & wk.Name & "|"
Next wk
StringWk = Left(StringWk, Len(StringWk) - 1) 'clean last | delimiter in string
ArrayWk = Split(StringWk, "|")
Sheets(ArrayWk).Select
'code to print to pdf or whatever
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Sheets("Keep1").Select 'deactivate selection
Erase ArrayWk
To create the array we use SPLIT:
Split
function