How to search multiple worksheets? - excel

Question

I search any text within Worksheet2 and display the results in ListBox1.
Private Sub SearchButton_Click()
'ListBox1.Clear
ListBox1.RowSource = ""
ListBox1.ColumnHeads = False
'listbox column headers
Me.ListBox1.AddItem
For A = 1 To 8
Me.ListBox1.List(0, A - 1) = Sheet2.Cells(1, A)
Next A
Me.ListBox1.Selected(0) = True
'Populating listbox from search
Dim i As Long
For i = 2 To Sheet2.Range("A100000").End(xlUp).Offset(1, 0).Row
For j = 1 To 8
H = Application.WorksheetFunction.CountIf(Sheet2.Range("A" & i, "H" & i), Sheet2.Cells(i, j))
If H = 1 And LCase(Sheet2.Cells(i, j)) = LCase(Me.TextBox2) Or H = 1 And _
Sheet2.Cells(i, j) = Val(Me.TextBox2) Then
Me.ListBox1.AddItem
For X = 1 To 8
Me.ListBox1.List(ListBox1.ListCount - 1, X - 1) = Sheet2.Cells(i, X)
Next X
End If
Next j
Next i
End Sub
I want to search multiple worksheets instead but don't know how to achieve this without changing the code completely.

Answer 1

You're going to have to change the reference to Sheet2 if you want to look at multiple sheets. There's no way around that. But, it will make your code more flexible. Start by doing this:
Private Sub SearchButton_Click()
'ListBox1.Clear
ListBox1.RowSource = ""
ListBox1.ColumnHeads = False
'listbox column headers
Me.ListBox1.AddItem
For A = 1 To 8
Me.ListBox1.List(0, A - 1) = Sheet2.Cells(1, A)
Next A
Me.ListBox1.Selected(0) = True
Dim ws As Worksheet 'This is the new line of code where you define your worksheet
Set ws = ActiveWorkbook.Sheet2 'Replace all references below to Sheet2 with this
'Populating listbox from search
Dim i As Long
For i = 2 To ws.Range("A100000").End(xlUp).Offset(1, 0).Row
For j = 1 To 8
H = Application.WorksheetFunction.CountIf(ws.Range("A" & i, "H" & i), Sheet2.Cells(i, j))
If H = 1 And LCase(Sheet2.Cells(i, j)) = LCase(Me.TextBox2) Or H = 1 And _
ws.Cells(i, j) = Val(Me.TextBox2) Then
Me.ListBox1.AddItem
For X = 1 To 8
Me.ListBox1.List(ListBox1.ListCount - 1, X - 1) = Sheet2.Cells(i, X)
Next X
End If
Next j
Next i
End Sub
Now that you're generalized your Sub, you can modify the value of ws to repeat the code as much as you need to. If it is every sheet in your workbook, you can use a For Each loop, like
For Each ws In ActiveWorkbook
'All your code for the ws here
Next ws
Or, you can define the worksheets in an array beforehand.
Dim SheetList(0 to 2) As String
Dim k As Integer
SheetList(0) = "Sheet 2 Name"
SheetList(1) = "Sheet 4 Name"
SheetList(2) = "Sheet 3 Name"
SheetList(3) = "Sheet 6 Name"
For k = LBound(SheetList) To UBound(SheetList)
ws = ActiveWorkbook.Sheets(SheetList(k))
'The rest of your code from above
Next k
You didn't specify in your question what kind of sheets how many, or how they are organized. But, these options should be enough to get you where you are trying to go.