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How to open a worksheet by selecting its name in a combo box in Excel?

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Suppose you have a Combo Box in your Excel workbook containing a list of all sheet names. You want to open a specific worksheet by selecting its name from the Combo Box. This guide demonstrates how to accomplish this using VBA code, with steps to populate the Combo Box with sheet names and enable the desired functionality.

A screenshot of a Combo Box in Excel containing sheet names

Open a worksheet by selecting its name in a combo box with VBA code

Open a worksheet by selecting its name in a combo box with VBA code

The below VBA code can help you to go to a specific worksheet based on the Combo Box selection in Excel. Please do as follows.

Note: If the Combo Box does not contain any sheet name in your worksheet, please follow the below tip to quickly add all sheet names to that Combo Box. If a Combo Box containing all sheet names already exists, proceed directly to step 1.

Tip: Insert a Command Button 1 in your worksheet, right click it and select View Code from the right clicking menu. Then copy and paste the below VBA code into the Code window, and press the Alt + Q keys to close the Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window. Click the inserted Command Button, then all sheet names of current workbook will be added into the ComboBox1 automatically.

VBA code: Easily add all sheet names into a Combo Box

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
    Me.ComboBox1.Clear
    Dim strWs As String
    Dim i As Integer
    
    For i = 1 To ThisWorkbook.Sheets.Count
        Me.ComboBox1.AddItem Sheets(i).Name
    Next
End Sub

If there is already a Combo Box containing all sheet names, please do as follow.

1. Turn on the Design Mode under the Developer tab.

2. Right click the combo box with sheet names, then click View Code from the right-clicking menu.

A screenshot of the right-click menu to access Combo Box code in Excel

3. Then the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window pops up, please replace the original VBA code in the Code window with the below VBA code.

VBA code: Open a specific worksheet by selected value of Combo Box

Private Sub ComboBox1_Change()
    Dim actWsh As String
    actWsh = ComboBox1.Text
    Worksheets(actWsh).Select
End Sub

Note: in the code, ComboBox1 is the name of the combo box which contains the sheet names.

4. Press the Alt + Q keys to close the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, and turn off the Design Mode under the Developer tab.

Now, selecting any worksheet name in the Combo Box will automatically open the corresponding worksheet.

Easily list all sheet names of current workbook in Excel:

Using sheet index in your workbook helps you manage your worksheets in ease. With the Create List of Sheet Names utility of Kutools for Excel, you can easily create a sheet index containing all sheet names in current workbook. After that, you can quickly shift to a certain worksheet by just clicking the sheet name in the Index worksheet. See below screenshot:

A screenshot showing a sheet index created with Kutools for Excel

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