Excel users often find themselves stuck on a treadmill of repetitive tasks. For instance, you may need to make a copy of a worksheet to serve as a backup copy or for testing purposes. In this article I’ll describe three ways to duplicate a worksheet. Two involve menus, the second a mouse-and-keyboard trick, and the third a single line of programming code. Show You may already be familiar with the first approach shown in Figure 1:
 Figure 1: A traditional approach to duplicating worksheets within a workbook. A second way to duplicate worksheets involves right-clicking on any worksheet tab, and then choosing Move or Copy from the context menu that appears. From there follow the same steps within the Move or Copy dialog box as described above. As shown in Figure 2, personally I find it easier to use a third approach, which involves holding down the Ctrl key while I use my left-mouse button to drag a worksheet to the right. This action will duplicate a worksheet without involving any menus. Figure 2: Hold down the Ctrl key while you drag a sheet tab to make a copy. As shown in Figure 3, the fourth approach enables you to replicate a contiguous group of sheets:
Figure 3: You can replicate groups of sheets at once. You’ll likely only use this fifth approach for special projects. Let’s say you need to make 12 copies of a worksheet when setting up a budget spreadsheet, or let’s say 50 copies of a spreadsheet to track activity by location. To test the concept, let’s start with a workbook with a single sheet, with a goal of having 12 copies of the same worksheet. A one-line macro can make 11 copies of the current worksheet:
Do Until Sheets.Count=12: Activesheet.Copy,ActiveSheet: Loop The line of programming code must appear as a single line within the Immediate window. The downside of the Immediate Window is you don’t get any direct feedback if your programming code worked, other than seeing that you now have 12 copies of the worksheet within the workbook. Error prompts will appear if you press Enter when the line of code is either incomplete or contains typographical errors. You may also encounter an error if the workbook is protected by way of the Protect Workbook command on Excel’s Review menu.
Figure 4: You can use a line of programming code to create as many copies of a worksheet as you need. The aforementioned line of code utilizes Visual Basic for Applications in Microsoft Excel. This is known as an object-oriented programming language, so if you want a little insight as to what the macro is doing:
If you were to store this within a formal macro, the code might take this form: Do Until Sheets.Count = 12 ActiveSheet.Copy ,ActiveSheet Loop The Immediate Window only allows us to execute a single line of code at a time, so the colons allow us to string three lines of code together into a single line that can be executed. If needed there are two ways to determine the number of worksheets presently in an Excel workbook:
Can I copy a sheet in Excel to another workbook?How To Copy a Sheet to Another Workbook in Excel. Open both spreadsheets.. Right-click on the sheet you want to move.. Click “Move or Copy.”. Click on the “To book” dropdown menu and find the workbook you want this sheet to move to.. Select the “Create a copy” checkbox at the bottom of the window.. Click “OK.”. How do I copy a workbook in Excel?To do this:. Select File > Save As > Download a Copy.. If Excel asks whether to open or save the workbook, select Save. Note: If you select Open instead of Save, the workbook will open in Protected View. Depending on your browser, you may not be asked this.. How do I copy a sheet in Excel with formatting?Copy cell formatting. Select the cell with the formatting you want to copy.. Select Home > Format Painter.. Drag to select the cell or range you want to apply the formatting to.. Release the mouse button and the formatting should now be applied.. |
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