Obtain displayed order of Excel worksheets - excel

Question

I'd like to find the position of a worksheet as it is displayed in a workbook.
For example, assume I have a workbook starting with Sheet1, Sheet2 and Sheet3 in that order. Then a user drags Sheet2 to left, before Sheet1.
I want Sheet2 to return 1, Sheet1 to return 2 (and Sheet3 still to return 3).
I can't find a way to determine this in VBA.

Answer 1

This should do it:
Worksheets("Sheet1").Index
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff836415.aspx

Answer 2

You can just iterate the Worksheets collection of the Workbook object. You can test yourself by running the following code, switch the order around in the UI, then run it again:
Option Explicit
Sub IterateSheetsByOrder()
Dim intCounter As Integer
Dim wb As Workbook
Set wb = ThisWorkbook
For intCounter = 1 To wb.Worksheets.Count
Debug.Print wb.Worksheets(intCounter).Name
Next intCounter
End Sub

Answer 3

To loop through all worksheets in a workbook use For Each WS in ThisWorkbook.Worksheets where WS is a worksheet object. Hence to obtain order of Excel worksheets as shown, we may also use the following code:
Sub LoopThroughWorksheets()
Dim WS As Worksheet
For Each WS In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
Debug.Print WS.Name
Next
End Sub
To obtain an output like Worksheets("Sheet1").Index then you may use this code
Sub IndexWorksheet()
Dim WS As Worksheet, n As Long
For Each WS In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
n = n + 1
If WS.Name = "Sheet1" Then Debug.Print n
Next
End Sub

Answer 4

You can use the Sheets object. In your example, reading Sheets(2).Name should return Sheet1.

Answer 5

Right answer provided by Anastasiya-Romanova, but missing some important details.
There are two methods of doing this. First, with a For Each loop:
Sub ListSheetNames()
Dim ws As Worksheet
For Each ws In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
Debug.Print ws.Name
Next ws
End Sub
Second, with a basic For loop:
Sub ListSheetNames
Dim i As Long
For i = 1 to ThisWorkbook.Worksheets.Count
Debug.Print ThisWorkbook.Worksheets(i).Name
Next i
End Sub
You will find the second method will always output the names in the sheet index order, which is generally the order the sheets were created in unless you change the index. Simply rearranging the sheets from the workbook window won't change the index.
Therefore, the first method is the correct way to do this. It will always follow the tab order as you see on your screen.

Answer 6

Below code works even if sheet is renamed or its sequence is changed.
Sub Display_Sheet_Tab_Number()
Dim WorksheetName As String
Dim n As Integer
WorksheetName = Sheet1.Name
MsgBox Worksheetname
n = Sheets(WorksheetName).Index 'n is index number of the sheet
MsgBox "Index No. = " & n
End Sub