VBA reference sheetname in excel - excel

Question

We have a excel file with a bunch of sheets. The first sheet is a "Search page" thing... where we want to type the name of the spreadsheet (for example in cell A1) we are looking for and then that would automatically pop up the right spreadsheet (within the same file).
I tried that, it didn't work at all :
Function ActivateWB(wbname As String)
'Open wbname.
Workbooks(wbname).Activate
End Function

Answer 1

Two code sets below
Add a full hyperlinked Table of Contents page
For your specific question re finding a sheet that is referred to by A1 on the first sheet see 'JumpSheet' code (at bottom)
Create TOC
Option Explicit
Sub CreateTOC()
Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim nmToc As Name
Dim rng1 As Range
Dim lngProceed As Boolean
Dim bNonWkSht As Boolean
Dim lngSht As Long
Dim lngShtNum As Long
Dim strWScode As String
Dim vbCodeMod
'Test for an ActiveWorkbook to summarise
If ActiveWorkbook Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "You must have a workbook open first!", vbInformation, "No Open Book"
Exit Sub
End If
'Turn off updates, alerts and events
With Application
.ScreenUpdating = False
.DisplayAlerts = False
.EnableEvents = False
End With
'If the Table of Contents exists (using a marker range name "TOC_Index") prompt the user whether to proceed
On Error Resume Next
Set nmToc = ActiveWorkbook.Names("TOC_Index")
If Not nmToc Is Nothing Then
lngProceed = MsgBox("Index exists!" & vbCrLf & "Do you want to overwrite it?", vbYesNo + vbCritical, "Warning")
If lngProceed = vbYes Then
Exit Sub
Else
ActiveWorkbook.Sheets(Range("TOC_Index").Parent.Name).Delete
End If
End If
Set ws = ActiveWorkbook.Sheets.Add
ws.Move before:=Sheets(1)
'Add the marker range name
ActiveWorkbook.Names.Add "TOC_INDEX", ws.[a1]
ws.Name = "TOC_Index"
On Error GoTo 0
On Error GoTo ErrHandler
For lngSht = 2 To ActiveWorkbook.Sheets.Count
'set to start at A6 of TOC sheet
'Test sheets to determine whether they are normal worksheets
ws.Cells(lngSht + 4, 2).Value = TypeName(ActiveWorkbook.Sheets(lngSht))
If TypeName(ActiveWorkbook.Sheets(lngSht)) = "Worksheet" Then
'Add hyperlinks to normal worksheets
ws.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=ws.Cells(lngSht + 4, 1), Address:="", SubAddress:="'" & ActiveWorkbook.Sheets(lngSht).Name & "'!A1", TextToDisplay:=ActiveWorkbook.Sheets(lngSht).Name
Else
'Add name of any non-worksheets
ws.Cells(lngSht + 4, 1).Value = ActiveWorkbook.Sheets(lngSht).Name
'Colour these sheets yellow
ws.Cells(lngSht + 4, 1).Interior.Color = vbYellow
ws.Cells(lngSht + 4, 2).Font.Italic = True
bNonWkSht = True
End If
Next lngSht
'Add headers and formatting
With ws
With .[a1:a4]
.Value = Application.Transpose(Array(ActiveWorkbook.Name, "", Format(Now(), "dd-mmm-yy hh:mm"), ActiveWorkbook.Sheets.Count - 1 & " sheets"))
.Font.Size = 14
.Cells(1).Font.Bold = True
End With
With .[a6].Resize(lngSht - 1, 1)
.Font.Bold = True
.Font.ColorIndex = 41
.Resize(1, 2).EntireColumn.HorizontalAlignment = xlLeft
.Columns("A:B").EntireColumn.AutoFit
End With
End With
'Add warnings and macro code if there are non WorkSheet types present
If bNonWkSht Then
With ws.[A5]
.Value = "This workbook contains at least one Chart or Dialog Sheet. These sheets will only be activated if macros are enabled (NB: Please doubleclick yellow sheet names to select them)"
.Font.ColorIndex = 3
.Font.Italic = True
End With
strWScode = "Private Sub Worksheet_BeforeDoubleClick(ByVal Target As Range, Cancel As Boolean)" & vbCrLf _
& " Dim rng1 As Range" & vbCrLf _
& " Set rng1 = Intersect(Target, Range([a6], Cells(Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp)))" & vbCrLf _
& " If rng1 Is Nothing Then Exit Sub" & vbCrLf _
& " On Error Resume Next" & vbCrLf _
& " If Target.Cells(1).Offset(0, 1) <> ""Worksheet"" Then Sheets(Target.Value).Activate" & vbCrLf _
& " If Err.Number <> 0 Then MsgBox ""Could not select sheet"" & Target.Value" & vbCrLf _
& "End Sub" & vbCrLf
Set vbCodeMod = ActiveWorkbook.VBProject.VBComponents(ws.CodeName)
vbCodeMod.CodeModule.AddFromString strWScode
End If
'tidy up Application settins
With Application
.ScreenUpdating = True
.DisplayAlerts = True
.EnableEvents = True
End With
ErrHandler:
If Err.Number <> 0 Then MsgBox Err.Description & vbCrLf & "Please note that your Application settings have been reset", vbCritical, "Code Error!"
End Sub
Jump Sheet
Sub JumpSheet()
Dim ws As Worksheet
On Error Resume Next
Set ws = Sheets(Sheets(1).[a1].Value)
On Error GoTo 0
If Not ws Is Nothing Then
Application.Goto ws.[a1]
Else
MsgBox "Sheet not found", vbCritical
End If
End Sub

Answer 2

Iterate over all sheets of the current workbook and activate the one with the right name. Here is some code which should give you the idea, You can put this in the code section of your search sheet and associate it with the "Clicked" event of a button.
Option Explicit
Sub Search_Click()
Dim sheetName As String, i As Long
sheetName = Range("A1")
For i = 1 To ThisWorkbook.Sheets.Count
If ThisWorkbook.Sheets(i).Name = sheetName Then
ThisWorkbook.Sheets(i).Activate
Exit For
End If
Next
End Sub

Answer 3

I am just confused about the question. Are you trying to open Workbook or Worksheet?.
If you trying to navigate to worksheet with in workbook,
E.g.
Worksheets("Sheet2").Activate