Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated September 5, 2020)
This tip applies to Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
If you have a lot of workbooks that have accumulated over the years, you may have a need to print some of the worksheets out of each of them. For instance, you might have a folder that contains a workbook for each of your company's divisions for the previous decade. If your company has eight divisions, that means you have 80 workbooks in the folder. Now, if you need to print the second-quarter and third-quarter figures (from the second and third worksheets out of each workbook), you start to see the problem. Loading each workbook and then printing selected sheets could take a huge amount of time.
A quicker way is to create a macro that will do the printing for you. The following macro starts by asking you for a directory path. Provided that you specify a path, the macro then starts to load each XLS (Excel) file in the directory, and then print the second and third worksheet from each one. Once printed, the worksheet is closed.
Public Sub PrintWorkbooks() Dim sCurFile As String Dim sPath As String 'Get the path sPath = InputBox("Starting path?", "PrintWorkbooks") If sPath <> "" Then On Error Resume Next Application.ScreenUpdating = False If Right(sPath, 1) <> "\" Then sPath = sPath & "\" End If sCurFile = Dir(sPath & "*.xls", vbNormal) Do While Len(sCurFile) <> 0 Workbooks.Open sPath & sCurFile, , True With Workbooks(sCurFile) .Worksheets(2).PrintOut .Worksheets(3).PrintOut .Close SaveChanges:=False End With sCurFile = Dir DoEvents Loop Application.ScreenUpdating = True On Error GoTo 0 End If End Sub
Obviously, if you have quite a few workbooks in the directory, printing could take quite some time. You may want to find some time when you have nothing else to do, and then just let the macro start running.
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ExcelTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Excel training. This tip (2215) applies to Microsoft Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. You can find a version of this tip for the ribbon interface of Excel (Excel 2007 and later) here: Printing Selected Worksheets.
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