Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Excel 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Excel, click here: Retrieving Worksheet Names.
Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated October 4, 2025)
This tip applies to Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
If you have a very large number of worksheets in a workbook, you might want to retrieve the names of those worksheets and put then on their own worksheet. For instance, you may want them in one place so you can use them in a table of contents or in some other fashion. The following macro, GetSheets, will quickly retrieve the names of the worksheets in the current workbook and put them in the first column of the current workbook, beginning at cell A1.
Please Note:
This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Excel 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Excel, click here:
Sub GetSheets()
Dim J As Integer
Dim NumSheets As Integer
NumSheets = Sheets.Count
For J = 1 To NumSheets
Cells(J, 1) = Sheets(J).Name
Next J
End Sub
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