Default Worksheet when Opening

You say that "Excel normally displays the worksheet last displayed when the workbook was last saved".. This is NOT TRUE and this is my problem. Why can't it display the sheet that was last saved when I open the file!?

The example does not work as written.

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Worksheets("StartSheet").Activate
End Sub

This worked for me:

\Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Sheets("Start Sheet").Select
End Sub

These instructions were extremely helpful! Thanks much for providing them! I will mention that one needs to make sure that one is working on a file that is of a "macro enabled" type. I didn't realize that the version of Excel that I was using wouldn't allowed macros until I tried to save the file with the added macro. It wouldn't save the macro. So I first had to save the file as a macro-enabled type and then add the macro. It worked perfectly!

Hi, For the advice at June 25, 2018, "Default worksheet when opening": If you want to always go to a specific work sheet when you open excel workbook, for sure a macro with sheet.activate works. BUT...in many (most?) organizations, for security reasons, all office tools, including excel, open with macros disabled. And, nowadays in the MS Office 365 environment the Excel workbooks don't open event into the native Excel desktop app but into the browser Excel extension where macros, and many other advanced features, don't work. Therefore it would be a good addition from MS to add an property/attribute for the Workbook object: "DefaultOpeningWorksheet".

Hallo again Heidi
Just to quote Allen Wyatt:--....."..You will obviously need to change the worksheet name to something different; it should exactly match the name of the desired worksheet...."....

Hello Heidi
Usually that error means that you don’t have a Worksheet with the tab name that you are trying to use in this part of the code: (“ “). If you are using the code exactly as Allen has given it , then you must have a tab name of "StartSheet". Usually , if you are using a normal/ default workbook in an English version of Excel, then the code line that you usually need would be for the first sheet:
Worksheets("Sheet1").Activate
and for the second sheet the code line would usually be:
Worksheets("Sheet2").Activate
As an alternative, you can refer to a worksheet item by its index number ( The index number is an integer counting the tabs as you see them from the left. So, for example, the first worksheet tab from the left has index number 1 ). So for example, to refer to the second sheet, an alternative code line would be
Worksheets.Item(2).Activate

Alan Elston

Getting a run-time error 9
Subscript out of range

It is not working, It says
Activate method of Worksheet Class Failed

@Mark
Perhaps you use
Private Sub Workbook_Activate()
istead of
Private Sub Workbook_Open()

Allen

Thank You for all you do. This is something I use all the time but just came across an anomoly. I have the macro so that my file opens on the page that I want , but if I go temporarily to use a different excel spreadsheet and then return to the one with the code it goes back to the initial opening window rather than stay on the page I was on, even though the worksheet was already open. is there any way I can stop this from happening.

Thanks

Doesn't seem to work for 2013?

Most helpful. I would add that after adding Macro you have to save your Workbook in a Macro-Enabled format. (Save as)

Worked great - thanks! Might be worth saying at point 8

"In the code window, paste or create the macro shown above. Make sure you use exactly the format shown - including the quote marks - around the sheet name you want to open with".