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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
Make sheet tab name equal to cell value with Kutools for 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)
'Updated by Extendoffice 20230130
    On Error Resume Next
    If Not Intersect(Target, Range("A1")) Is Nothing Then
        ActiveSheet.Name = ActiveSheet.Range("A1")
    ElseIf Not Intersect(Target.Dependents, Range("A1")) 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.

Before applying Kutools for Excel, please download and install it firstly.

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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Bernardo Sebastião Floriano
Bernardo Sebastião Floriano
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Good
It was the same thing I was looking for. But now I have a question:
After these steps were done, I created several sheets, I locked the sheet, but when I lock the book and enter a value in the cell, the name of the sheet does not change. In other words, it only changes with the spreadsheet unlocked and I would like to keep the spreadsheet locked
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Bernardo Sebastião Floriano
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Boas
Era mesmo isto que estava a procurar. Mas agora tenho uma questão:
Após esses passos feitos, criei várias sheet, bloqueei a folha, mas quando bloqueio o livro e digito um valor na célula, o nome da sheet não muda. Ou seja, só muda com a sheet desbloqueada e gostaria de manter a sheet bloqueada
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Yas
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bonjour,
que voulez-vous dire par appuyer autre autre+q dans le code vba après avoir collé.
J'ai simplement fermé la page après avoir collé et ça ne marche pas
merci
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Christopher Ward
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worked beautifully!
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Tom J
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Hi Crystal,

When i paste in your code it comes back with error "user-defined type not defined"?

Thanks.
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crystal     Tom J
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Hi Tom J,
Make sure these three options are checked in the References - VBAProject dialog box.
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A Owen
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This worked perfectly for my first worksheet, but not for the second or third etc (I have up to about 20 worksheets that all need this function). Am I missing something?
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crystal     A Owen
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Hi A Owen,
This code only works for one worksheet per time. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Remi
Remi
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What is the highest nr of worksheets, that can be changed names via Kutools Plus? because the excel letting me only 17 names to changes, and that's it
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Skottle
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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?
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dan
dan
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How can I reference two cells. for example name and id number?
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NickP84
NickP84
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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?
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crystal     NickP84
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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.
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