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How to double click a cell to open a specified worksheet in Excel?

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Do you want to quickly navigate to a specified worksheet in an Excel workbook? This article will provide a VBA method to open a specified worksheet by double-clicking a certain cell in Excel.

Double click a cell to open a specified worksheet with VBA code

Double click a cell to open a specified worksheet with VBA code

Please do as follows to open a specified worksheet by double-clicking a cell in Excel.

1. Right-click the sheet tab which contains the cell you want to open worksheet by clicking on it. And then click View Code from the context menu. See screenshot:

click View Code from the context menu

2. In the opening Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, please copy the following VBA code into the Code window.

VBA code: double click cell to open a specified worksheet in Excel

Private Sub Worksheet_BeforeDoubleClick(ByVal Target As Range, Cancel As Boolean)
'Updated by Extendoffice 20180822
Dim xArray, xAValue As Variant
Dim xFNum As Long
Dim xStr, xStrRg, xStrSheetName As String
xRgArray = Array("A1;Sheet2", "A12;Sheet3", "A4;Sheet4", "A100;Sheet5")
On Error Resume Next
For xFNum = LBound(xRgArray) To UBound(xRgArray)
xStr = ""
xStr = xRgArray(xFNum)
xAValue = ""
xAValue = Split(xStr, ";")
xStrRg = ""
xStrRg = xAValue(0)
xStrSheetName = ""
xStrSheetName = xAValue(1)
If Not Intersect(Target, Range(xStrRg)) Is Nothing Then
Sheets(xStrSheetName).Activate
End If
Next
End Sub

Note: In the VBA code, "A1;Sheet2", "A12;Sheet3", "A4;Sheet4", "A100;Sheet5" mean that doube click cell A1 will open Sheet2, double click A2 will open Sheet3..., please change them based on your needs.

3. Press the Alt + Q keys together to close the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

From now on, when double clicking cell A1 in current worksheet, the specified worksheet will be activated immediately.

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