How to lock a sheet position for always visible in Excel Workbook?
If there are multiple sheets in a workbook, when you navigate to the last sheet, the first sheet becomes hidden in the sheet tab bar, as shown below. Now you want to lock a master sheet’s position to keep it always visible, how can you handle it?
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Lock sheet position with VBA
Here I introduce two VBA codes for you to handle this job.
Jump to specific sheet using a shortcut
1. Press Alt + F11 keys to enable the Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows.
2. Click Insert > Module, then copy and paste below code to the script.
VBA: Jump to the master sheet
Sub GoToSheet()
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Sheets("Master").Activate
End SubNote: In the code slice of Sheets("Master").Activate, you can change the Master to any sheet name as you need.
3. Then save this code, and go back to the workbook, click Developer > Macros.
4. In the Macro dialog, select the code name you inserted just now, click Options, create a shortcut for running this code.
5. Click OK and close the Macro dialog.
From right now, while pressing the shortcut you created, the master sheet will be activated regardless of the sheet currently in use.
Keep a specific sheet always in the front
1. Press Alt + F11 keys to enable the Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows.
2. Double click ThisWorkbook from the Project-VBAProject pane, and copy and paste below code to the script.
VBA: Keep sheet always in the front
Private Sub Workbook_SheetActivate(ByVal Sh As Object)
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Dim xSheet As Worksheet
Application.EnableEvents = False
Set xSheet = Sheets("master")
If Sh.Name <> xSheet.Name Then
Sh.Move , xSheet
xSheet.Activate
Sh.Activate
End If
Application.EnableEvents = True
End Sub
3. Save the code and close the VBA window. From now, whichever sheet you select, the master sheet will always stay at the front of the tab bar.
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Note: In above code, “master” is the sheet name you want to keep visible, change it as you need.
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