VBA Name WorkSheet | Name an Excel Worksheet Using VBA

Excel VBA Name WorkSheet

In VBA, Naming the worksheet doesn’t need any special skills. We just need to reference which sheet name we are changing by entering the existing sheet name. For example, if we want to change the sheet named “Sales” then we need to call the sheet by its name using Worksheet object.

Worksheets(“Sales”)

After mentioning the sheet name we need to select the “Name” property to change the worksheet name.

Worksheets(“Sales”).Name

Now we need to set the Name property to the name as per our wish. Assume you want to change the “Sales” to “Sales Sheet” then put equal sign after “NAME” property and enter the new name in double-quotes.

Worksheets(“Sales”).Name = “Sales Sheet”

Like this, we can change the worksheet name using Name property.

Examples

You can download this VBA Name Worksheet Excel Template here – VBA Name Worksheet Excel Template

Example #1

Change or Rename Sheet using Variables.

For an example look at the below sample code.

Code:

Sub Name_Example1()

 Dim Ws As Worksheet

 Set Ws = Worksheets("Sales")

 Ws.Name = "Sales Sheet"

End Sub

In the above first, I have declared the variable as Worksheet.

Dim Ws As Worksheet

Next, I have set the reference to the variable as “Sales” using worksheets object.

Set Ws = Worksheets("Sales")

Now the variable “Ws” holds the reference of the worksheet “Sales”.

Now using the “Ws” variable I have renamed the worksheet as “Sales Sheet”.

This code will change the “Sales” name to “Sales Sheet”.

Important Note to Remember

We just have seen how to change the name of the excel worksheet from one name to another. However, if we run the code again we will get Subscript Out of Range error.

One of the keys to getting an expert in VBA Macros is to handle errors, before handling errors we need to know why we are getting this error.

The reason why we get this error because in the previous step itself we have already changed the worksheet named “Sales” to “Sales Sheet”.

We don’t have any sheet named as “Sales” we will get this subscript out of range error.

Example #2

Get all the worksheet names in Single Sheet.

Assume you have plenty of worksheets in your workbook and you want to get the name of all these worksheets in any of the single worksheets. This can be done by using VBA coding.

For an example look at the below image.

We have so many sheets here.

Off all these sheets we need the name of each sheet in the sheet called “Index Sheet”. I have written the below code for you.

Code:

Sub All_Sheet_Names()

Dim Ws As Worksheet
Dim LR As Long

For Each Ws In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
LR = Worksheets("Index Sheet").Cells(Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Row + 1
'This LR varaible to find the last used row
Cells(LR, 1).Select
ActiveCell.Value = Ws.Name
Next Ws

End Sub

Now copy this code to your module.

Now run the code by naming any of the worksheets as “Index Sheet”. This code will give all the worksheet names in “Index Sheet”.

Like this using “NAME” property of the worksheet in VBA, we can play around with the name of the worksheets. We can rename, extract, and we can choose the specific worksheet and do many other things which can be done by using “Name” property.

Things to Remember

NAME in VBA is property.
Using this name we can rename the worksheet and also we can extract sheet names.
We can change any name of the worksheet in the specified workbook if you are referring to other workbooks than the code written workbook.
If the worksheet name doesn’t match we will get subscript out of range.

Excel VBA Name WorkSheet

Examples

Example #1

Example #2

Things to Remember

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