How to make sheet tab name equal to cell value in Excel?
In some cases, you may need to rename a worksheet based on a specified cell value. In this article, we will show you methods of making sheet tab name equal to cell value in Excel.
Make sheet tab name equal to cell value with VBA code
With the following VBA code, you can make sheet tab name equal to cell value automatically.
1. Right click the sheet tab which you want to make the sheet name equal to cell value, then click View Code from the right-clicking menu. See screenshot:
2. Copy and paste below code into the Code window, and then press Alt + Q keys simultaneously to close the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
VBA code: Make sheet tab equal to cell value
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
If Not Intersect(Target, Range("A1")) Is Nothing Then
ActiveSheet.Name = ActiveSheet.Range("A1")
End If
End Sub
Note: In the code, A1 is the cell which contains the value you need to use as sheet name. You can change it as you need.
From now on, when the value in cell A1 changed, the sheet tab name will be changed equally as well.
Make sheet tab name equal to cell value with Kutools for Excel
In this section, we introduce you the Rename Multiple Worksheets utility of Kutools for Excel. With this utility, you can easily rename worksheets with certain cell’s value in Excel.
1. Click Kutools Plus > Worksheet > Rename Multiple Worksheets. See screenshot:
2. In the Rename Multiple Worksheets dialog box, you need to do as follows.
1). Check the worksheet names you want to rename in the Worksheets box (you can select one sheet or multiple sheets).
2). Select Replace original sheet name box in the Rename Options section.
3). If you want to rename a worksheet or multiple worksheets with specified cell’s value, please select the From specific range option, and select the range of cells that you want to rename the sheets based on.
4). Click the OK button. See screenshot:
You can see the selected worksheets are renamed by the specified range value immediately as below screenshot shown.
Notes:
1. You can use the Filter function to easily filter out the needed worksheet if there are lots of worksheets exist.
2. If you want to rename multiple worksheets with a certain cell value in each sheet. For example, sheet1 will be equal to its cell A1’s value, and sheet2 will also be equal to its cell A1’s value. Please select worksheets in the Worksheets box, then select the Rename worksheets with specific cell option, and specify cell A1 in the box.
3. The sheet name won’t be changed automatically with the cell value changes.
If you want to have a free trial ( 30-day) of this utility, please click to download it, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.
Make sheet tab name equal to cell value with Kutools for Excel
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I'm using your exact code from the above for VBA code which works perfectly for what I need. However, I have a bunch of macros on a sheet called Job Template that gets copied and reused for every new job. I designed all my macros based on a new copied version called Job Template (2). Once the sheet name is changed to the new job name, the macros no longer work and have to manually do it. I would like to be able to use any of my Macro buttons at any point instead of only using them before I change the sheet name.
Is there a way for the VBA code to always refer to the sheet name before running the rest of the code functions?
This is exactly what I need, but I need the tab to recreate a date and it isn't working... I assume this is something to do with the way excel works out date and time, can anyone suggest a workaround?
Hi Nick, Excel does not support typing the sheet name containing special characters. If the date you type contains the character /, it won't allow you to create the sheet name with that date.
I am getting this code to work, but it does not automatically update the tab name when the cell it pulls the name from if referencing another cell (and that cell changes).
I.e. I change a cell in a master list, which changes the cell text in a specific cell on each tab, which the code is referencing as the tab name, BUT the tab doesn't update its name correspondingly.
Good day,
The following VBA code can solve your problem. Thank you for your comment1
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range) Dim xRg As Range, xCell As Range
On Error Resume Next If Not Intersect(Target, Range("A1")) Is Nothing Then
ActiveSheet.Name = ActiveSheet.Range("A1") End If
Application.EnableEvents = False Set xRg = ActiveSheet.Range("A1").Precedents
If Not xRg Is Nothing Then For Each xCell In xRg
ActiveSheet.Name = ActiveSheet.Range("A1") Next
End If Application.EnableEvents = True
End Sub
I change a cell in a master list, which changes the cell text in a specific cell on each tab, which the code is referencing as the tab name, BUT the tab doesn't update its name correspondingly.
Still doesn't work. I'm having the same issue as jJJ. crystal: Is the whole code shown in your reply?
The last line shown in your comment is "Set xRg = ActiveSheet.Range("A1").Precedents"
I have A1 of the new sheet point to another cell in a different tab. It updates the first time (when you execute) but then no change when editing the master cell
Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Excel.Range)
Set Target = Range("A1") If Target = "" Then Exit Sub
On Error GoTo Badname ActiveSheet.Name = Left(Target, 31)
Exit Sub
Badname: MsgBox "Please revise the entry in A1." & Chr(13) _
& "It appears to contain one or more " & Chr(13) _ & "illegal characters." & Chr(13)
Range("A1").Activate
End Sub
I pasted this in as instructed but it didn't show up in my list of available Macros. I tried to manually run it by keying in the Macro name. When it attempted to run the Macro, an error message came up "Argument no optional".
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range) If Not Intersect(Target, Range("A1")) Is Nothing Then
ActiveSheet.Name = ActiveSheet.Range("A1") End If
End Sub
Has anyone else run this code and had the same issue?
As a test I ran more basic code and it worked fine so the value in "A1" isn't causing the problem. When I run the code below I can see the Macro name "myTabName" in the Macro list. The code above doesn't appear and I'm assuming this is because of the bug/missing argument.
Sub myTabName() ActiveSheet.Name = ActiveSheet.Range("A1")
End Sub
Thanks for your help as I'd very much like to use the code as intended for automating tab name changes based on a cell value..
