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Printing Only Non-Blank Worksheets

Summary: If you have a workbook containing many worksheets, you might want to print only those worksheets that have some sort of "flag" set, such as a value in a particular cell. This can be done relatively easily by using a macro to do the printing, as discussed in this tip. (This tip works with Microsoft Excel 97, Excel 2000, Excel 2002, Excel 2003, and Excel 2007.)

Clinton has a workbook with about 210 worksheets which get populated by various people in his company during the month. At the end of the month he needs to print these worksheets. Not all the worksheets contain data and Clinton only wants to print the worksheets that contain data so he doesn't waste paper. Clinton wonders if there is, perhaps, a macro that can be used to print only those worksheets that have a value in cell G41.

The answer is that such a macro could be written rather easily. It would only need to figure out how many worksheets there are, check cell G41 on each of them, and then print only if there is something in that cell. The following macro performs just these operations.

Sub PrintMost()
    Dim wks As Worksheet
    For Each wks In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
        If Not IsEmpty(wks.Range("G41")) Then
            wks.PrintOut
        End If
    Next
    Set wks = Nothing
End Sub

The macro could be easily modified to perform other operations, such as asking if any given worksheet should be printed or asking how many copies should be printed.

ExcelTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Excel training. This tip (3502) applies to Microsoft Excel versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

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