Switching Between Workbooks Without Having To Use The Activate Command
Jun 22, 2009
Is there a way to switch back and forth between workbooks without having to use the Activate command? I have everything planned out but this aspect is still a source of confusion. The Project: I need to have qty purchased and price in a table from Worksheet B entered into the matching customer index location in Worksheet A. Worksheet B contains customer number, sku, qty purchased and price. Worksheet A contains customer numbers in row 3 and sku's in column A. Minor data manipulation will need to be done on Worksheet B before before accessing it which I plan to do after opening it in this macro.
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Jun 12, 2007
From a workbook, I need to open a further workbook called 'transfer' and then switch back to the original workbook. Presumably I need to save the current workbook name to a variable, open transfer with Workbooks.Open Filename:="c:debworkTRANSFER.xls"
then switch back to the original
How do i pass the original workbook name to a variable, and then reactivate it. I have tried numerous options but just cannot get it to work. Do i reactivate with workbook. activate or windows.activate
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Oct 7, 2006
I'm trying to write a piece of VBA code which will switch back and forth between 2 workbooks, but I was hoping that I would not have to name both workbooks in my code.
So far I have been able to name the second file as a variable, open it and copy the data I need, but I now need to switch back to the original file. Is there any way of doing this without hard coding the file name?
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May 9, 2007
I have 3 workbooks open, the main WB has my command button + code in it, and the other 2 were opened up using the existing code in my main workbook.
Using general code e.g( Thisworkbook, activeworkbook, workbooks(1)), how can I activate one out of the 3?
I know the main workbook can be accessed using "thisworkbook", but when I activate it, I can't activate one of the others in my next line of code using activeworkbook.activate, or workbooks(1).activate.
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Feb 1, 2007
I select workbook 1, cell A4, then I select workbook 2, cell A4, but when I'm in workbook 2, it does not select cell A4. Am I doing something wrong here? See my code below.
Sub CopyData()
Dim i As Variant
Workbooks("1_2007 Forecast (Ancillary).xls").Worksheets(1).Activate
Cells.Range("a4").Activate
Workbooks("1_2007 Forecast (LGBU).xls").Worksheets(1).Activate
Cells.Range("a4").Activate
End Sub
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Jan 4, 2007
I have create a nice invoice with macros to random insert pages and summations etc. Works fine, but to complete it I want to go one step further and there ìt got out of hand.
I want to create the following, but I can not get al this combined in two Macros.
Basis: Workbook 1 = Invoice, Workbook 2 = Invoicelist
Required actions Macro1:
1. Starting point is that Workbook “Invoice” is open.
2. The user activates Macro1.
3. Check if Workbook “Invoicelist” is active.
4A. If YES then continue,
4B. If NOT then reply with some sort of Alertbox “Invoicelist not active! Click OK to open (needs to open Workbook “Invoicelist” or Cancel to stop (needs to stop Macro).
5. Workbook 2 “Invoicelist” is now open.
6. Find the last invoicenumber in the list. Add “1” and put the new number to the list (to prevent using double numbers). Then I want to take this number to the “Invoice’ workbook, but that can be done by copy and paste.
Now I get really stuck because I want to use variables instead of multiple copy paste actions.
Required actions Macro2:
7. We are in Workbook “Invoice”, the user activates Macro2.
8. Same check if Workbook “Invoicelist” is active as in Macro1.
Several data from “Invoice” has te be transfered to “Invoicelist”. And to be safe, this does not have to be the last cell if the user “forgot” to store date for a previous invoice!
9. Store data from sevaral cells in variables, including invoicenumber!
10. Find invoicenumber in “Invoicelist”.
11. Paste data from variables into fields on same row as correct invoicenumber.
12. Save Workbook “Invoicelist”.
13. Go back to Workbook “Invoice”.
The two problems I cannot fix is checking if Workbook is Active and store and use cell values with variables.
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Jul 20, 2006
I'm having trouble finding a way to switch between two workbooks that I have open whose names are stored as variables. If the variable name were variable, for example, I have tried the following:
workbook(variable).activate
workbook.activate variable
workbook(variable).select
workbook.select variable
none of these work and I've tried a ton of other ways to get it to work but I just can't figure it out!
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Apr 25, 2008
I am trying to write a macro that activates the following funtion in cell D1.
=HYPERLINK("#"&C2,"")
I have recorded the following macro but it only jumps to the cell the function is in rather than actually activating the function and jumping to reference which has been selected in C2.
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Oct 21, 2011
I am having some difficulty working out how to activate the SelectionChange command if the user changes a cell in a particular column. Based on the fact that the column number may change the constant in this column will be that on row 7 the name will be "Fund Size".
Therefore my question is how do I get VBA to run my code if a user changes a cell in the "Fund Size" column...and underneath the "Fund Size" header (i.e. row 8 or greater).
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Jun 17, 2014
I know that I can assign a keyboard shortcut to run a macro, but I have multiple items that are activated by command buttons and would like to be able to trigger them all with one keystroke.
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Nov 5, 2008
I have a workbook containing macros that opens a second one (no macros) and does some 'data mining'.
The following VBA is used for that (I use this code on dozen of files and it has always worked, except here):
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
ChDir (WshShell.SpecialFolders("MyDocuments"))
BladNaam = Application.GetOpenFilename("Excel File, *.xls", , "Excel")
Workbooks.Open FileName:=BladNaam
TabNaam = ActiveSheet.Name
The problem is that most of the time the newly opened workbook is NOT activated (i.e put on top) and thus the rest of the code is executed on the wrong workbook...
If I put in a Msgbox(ActiveWorkbook.Name) 9 out of 10 times the active workbook is the initial one and not the one that was opened by the code.
tried replacing Active.Workbook with wb (dim wb as workbook).
tried to wait-a-few-seconds in between code
tried renaming
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Mar 17, 2007
I have the VB Editor open and am manually activating different workbooks in Excel (with 20/25 modules each), the VB Editor goes through a process of maximising each and every module in the workbook I have selected before I can edit any code or, indeed, do anything in the workbook. This process takes about 8-10 seconds every time I select a different workbook in excel! I have played around with the settings "Full Module View" in the options section of the VB editor, but to no effect.
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Oct 31, 2009
I have a column of cells that have the last name first then the first name. Example:
C1
Smith John
Is there a formula/macro that can switch them all?
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Apr 14, 2009
Is it possible that when you press a command button, that the first thing it does is to execute the code assigned to another command button (IE in another sub).
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Nov 25, 2006
Working for a dutch company and using a lot of excel and access it is sometimes a pain that when you are looking for functions. for example "left(b3;3)" in dutch is "links(b3;3)" now this is an easy one but some are hard to guess.
I wrote some neat code which condionally formats cell's in an Excel range and dependend on a value in column "Q" (= status) then sets the color of the field. it works fine
However when working with an english version of Excel I need to use "left" instead of "links"
how to check the local settings for Excel?
[code]
'Conditional Format status cell's
.Range("G4:P" & (xRcount + 3)).Interior.ColorIndex = 4
iRow = 4
iRow2 = 4
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Apr 22, 2007
I am trying to figure out commissions with 3 different commission structures depending on type of product. So on C2 I have a drop down box with the 3 types of products. So what I would like to do is when C2 shows say "New" I want it to calculate using one formula. When "used" is selected, I want to use a different formula. And when "scratch_dent" is used, I want it to use a 3rd formula.
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Feb 11, 2008
I made up a small subprocedure that searches through a large list of zipcodes (These zipcodes are in a separate sheet). Whenever I execute my subprocedure in another sheet, it jumps to the zipcode sheet and then goes back to where I originally executed the subprocedure.
Is there any way that I can prevent the sheets from switching back and forth?
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Sep 30, 2009
I want the people filling in the form to put the date into a box. I did have a calendar box but this wouldn't work on a lot of PCs , so I've switched it for three combo boxes, Day-Month-Year.
I've got the 'Add' button to put it all together - DayBox.Value & "/" & MonthBox.Value etc
This seemed to work fine and excel processes this as a date. It automatically switches to the US date format (MM/DD/YYYY) which would be fine as users don't see it and I know it's at least consistent.
But it's not.
1st August 2009 = 08/01/2009 (ie MM/DD/YYYY)
13th August 2009 = 13/08/2009 (ie DD/MM/YYYY)
And while I can format cell to show me the month name in the first example, the 13/08/2009 refuses to change format even though it's recognised as a date.
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May 21, 2014
I have names in cells in this format.
Smith John
I would like to switch that around so the name in the cell looks like this
John Smith
Is there an easy way to do this?
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Oct 23, 2007
I'm having a problem with how excel opens my files. Up until yesterday when I would open any of my spreadsheets they would open seperately. I would have multiple files open across my taskbar and could easily switch between files with a simple Alt-tab windows function.
Now when I open multiple excel files it opens them under "one" file so to speak. The only way to switch between files is if I go to Window>then select the file I want or minimize within excel so I can see the other spreadsheets.
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Oct 4, 2009
I need help with stopping the screen to swiching to different worksheet. Everytime I execute this macro, the screen is switching to different worksheet.
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Nov 13, 2009
Stop sheets switching. I have a simple autofill macro
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Mar 18, 2014
I have a macro that launches another program (Windows Title - Storm). I then use sendkeys to have it export the file to an excel file. (This launches another instance of excel.) I want to be able to focus back to (Storm) so I can sendkeys to close the program down. I can get it to the end result using sendkeys, but I am trying to have it switch back to the Storm application so the user does not need to close it manually.
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Oct 7, 2002
I often find myself moving from one sheet in a workbook to another over and over. I wanted a shortcut that moved between the last two sheets selected.
Similar to how Alt+Tab works with windows.
Does anybody know a keyboard shortcut or if not is there a macro that could be added to perosnal.xls that would mean i would aways b able to switch between two sheets quickly.
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Jan 21, 2009
I am currently creating a massive bilingual report using Excel based on data gathered from a customer visit, as most of the engineers are non-native English speakers, and most everywhere else in the world wants reports in English. Currently I am using this roundabout method:
I have a lookup Table sheet: .....
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May 19, 2014
how to switch cells per date entered?
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May 21, 2009
Which version of excel allows you to do a Track Changes without switching to a shared workbook? I am awared the Excel 2002 version allows Track Changes on the conditioned that the workbook is switch to shared mode.
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Feb 5, 2010
I need keyboard shortcut for switching through worksheets.
For now, I have this VBA macro and shortcut Ctrl+R:
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Nov 30, 2011
I am creating a code that loops through several list and Copys and paste the value in a given cell to another cell. However I would like it to do so without switching to the other tab. Additionally I also don't want to freeze the worksheet because I have a display that shows progress through a conditional formatting thing. I need it to stay on the "Rotation" tab.
Sub Roladex()
Dim RegionPaste As Range
Dim row As Integer, row1 As Integer, row2 As Integer
[Code].....
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Aug 4, 2012
I've been programming my VBA script to import data from an XML file which looks like this:
HTML Code:
<response responseStatus="success"> <result xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"xsi:type="apiPagination"> <currentPage>1</currentPage> <list xsi:type="apiReport"> <Variable1>Name1</Variable1> <Variable2>41</Variable2> </list> <list xsi:type="apiReport"> <Variable1>Name2</Variable1> <Variable2>20</Variable2> </list>
So far everything works great and it imports everything correctly to Excel 2010. This is the code I'm using:
Code:
Sub test()
Dim WS As Worksheet: Set WS = ActiveSheet
Dim req As New XMLHTTP
Dim Link As String
Dim PageNumber As Integer
Dim Url As String
PageNumber = 1
[code].....
The problem is that I only import page1 (only link [URL])
How do I get all URLs so that it also imports the data located on other pagenumbers? For example [URL]
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