Answering my own question from the previous post, here is a short UDF that will return a list of worksheet names, starting with any chosen sheet:
Function Sheetnames(Srange As Range, Numsheets As Long) As Variant
Dim NameA() As String, Firstsheet As Long, i As Long, j As Long
ReDim NameA(1 To Numsheets, 1 To 1)
Firstsheet = Srange.Worksheet.Index
For i = 1 To Numsheets
j = i + Firstsheet - 1
NameA(i, 1) = Worksheets(j).Name & "!"
Next i
Sheetnames = NameA
End Function
Enter as an array formula (with ctrl-shift-enter)
SheetNames() UDF
There’s an alternative approach using defined names with some of those names calling XLM functions. See
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions/msg/e803e69927d7164e
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Hi Doug,
I think I would have spat it in to one cell, with a “,” between names, what happens if I don’t know how many sheets I have?
Is it possible to get a UDF to write data to the windows clipboard? That way you could run the function then paste it onto the sheet – if you see what I mean?
Good stuff
Ross
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Ross – you don’t like array functions?
The point of the sheetname function was to get all the sheetnames listed in a column, so writing them to a column array seemed like the obvious way to do it.
I’ve never tried writing to the clipboard before, but looking into it, it seems to have interesting possibilities.
Everything you need to know here: http://www.cpearson.com/excel/Clipboard.aspx
The main thing being you need a reference to the Microsoft Forms 2.0 Object Library to make the code below work (I guess you’ll have that anyway, but I’ve just got a new computer and it didn’t have the reference set):
Function WriteToClip(Textin As String) as string
Dim mText As DataObject
Set mText = New DataObject
mText.SetText Textin
mText.PutInClipboard
WriteToClip = Textin & ” copied to clipboard”
End Function
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