How to create sequence worksheets from a range of cells in Excel?

If you have a range of data in your worksheet, and now, you want to create a sequence of worksheets based on the cell data, see following screenshot. Of course, you can edit the worksheet name one by one manually, but if there are multiple worksheet names need to be edited, this way will be troublesome and time-consuming. Here, I will talk about some quick tricks to help you.

Create sequence worksheets from list of cells with VBA code

Create sequence worksheets from list of cells with Kutools for Excel

Create sequence worksheets from list of cells with VBA code

The following VBA code can help you add some worksheets which are named based on the cell contents after existing worksheets. Please do as this:

1. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys, then it opens the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following code in the Module Window.

VBA code: add sequence worksheets based on list of cells

Sub CreateWorkSheetByRange()
'Update 20130829
Dim WorkRng As Range
Dim Ws As Worksheet
Dim arr As Variant
On Error Resume Next
xTitleId = "KutoolsforExcel"
Set WorkRng = Application.Selection
Set WorkRng = Application.InputBox("Range", xTitleId, WorkRng.Address, Type:=8)
arr = WorkRng.Value
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
For i = 1 To UBound(arr, 1)
    For j = 1 To UBound(arr, 2)
        Set Ws = Worksheets.Add(after:=Application.ActiveSheet)
        Ws.Name = arr(i, j)
    Next
Next
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

3. Then press F5 key to run this code, and then a prompt box will be popped out for you to select the range that you want to use. See screenshot:

4. And then click OK, the worksheets which are named by the cell values have been added after the existing worksheet. See screenshot:

Notes:

1. The new worksheets will be inserted after the current worksheet.

2. If the selected range included blank cells, the worksheets are named based on default. See screenshots:

Create sequence worksheets from list of cells with Kutools for Excel

Here, I introduce a handy tool-Kutools for Excel, with its Create Sequence Worksheets, you can quickly create worksheets with month name, day name, custom list and so on.

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After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as following steps:

1. Select the range that you want to create worksheets based on.

2. Click Kutools Plus > Worksheet > Create Sequence Worksheets, see screenshot:

3. In the Create Sequence Worksheets dialog box, choose the worksheet type that you want to create the new sequence worksheets, and then check Data in a range option, see screenshot:

4. Then click OK to close the dialog box, and a new workbook which contains the worksheets are named by the selected range data has been created. See screenshot:

Notes:

1. If you choose Sheet 1 or Sheet 2, the new worksheets are created will be as the same formatting as Sheet 1 or Sheet 2.

2. The new worksheets are created in a new workbook.

3. If the selected range included blank cells, the worksheets are named based on default. See screenshots:

Click to know more about this Create Sequence Worksheets feature.

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