Copying worksheets in Excel is a common task. It provides massive time savings by allowing you to use the content of the worksheet over and over without the need to regenerate the formulas or the formatting. Most often copying a worksheet within the same workbook is easy and mostly problem-free. However, if you are trying to copy worksheets with a table or worksheets to a different workbook that contains formulas, then you might encounter problems. The aim of this article is to set out how you can copy worksheets and how you can overcome some of the problems you might encounter.
How to copy a worksheet or multiple worksheets to the same workbook
What happens to Formulas and Formatting and Tables when you copy a worksheet to the same workbook?
How to copy a worksheet or multiple worksheets to a different workbook
What happens to Formulas and Formatting and Tables when you copy a worksheet to the same workbook?
What if you do not want to copy the reference sheets to a different workbook?
Use find and replace.
Change source data.
How to copy or duplicate an Excel worksheet or multiple worksheets to the same workbook
To copy one or more worksheets to the same workbook, select the tabs that you want to copy. To select multiple tabs, hold down control as you left-click on the mouse to select each tab.
Once you have selected the tabs to be duplicated, right-click to open the tabs menu.
From the tab’s menu, select Move or Copy. This will open the Move or Copy Options box
The default setting in Move or Copy is to copy the selected worksheets to the same workbook. If you wish to copy the worksheets to a different workbook then you would use the To book dropdown. This will allow to select a different Excel workbook, but we will look at that later in this article.
You will also note, the first worksheet appears to be selected in the Move or Copy option box. This is deceiving, as we have selected the worksheets before we opened the box. In this case, we selected the worksheets Calculations and Sheet3, however Data sheet is highlighted in the Move or Copy options box.
To copy the selected worksheets, ensure you have included a tick on the Create a copy box and press ok.
Excel will now make a copy of these sheets and give them a default name as the original sheet name with a number at the end.
When you are making a copy of these worksheets, if you want the placement of the tabs to be at the end, you must select (move to end) in the Move or Copy options box.
What happens to Formulas and Formatting and Tables when you copy a worksheet to the same workbook?
When you copy a worksheet with formulas into the same workbook, all relative and absolute references should remain in place in each formula, relative to the new worksheets. However, when you are copying worksheets with formulas to another workbook, you may encounter problems, but we will deal with that later in the article.
When you copy a worksheet or group of worksheets the formatting on each sheet will also copy across to the duplicated sheet.
It is possible to copy a worksheet that contains a table within the same workbook. To copy a worksheet with a table, follow the same method as above, by first selecting the worksheet tab that you want to copy.
A problem occurs when you want to copy multiple worksheets and one or more of these contains a table. In this case, Excel will give you an error.
When you need a copy of a worksheet with a table, you must select the worksheet that contains the table on its own and copy this worksheet separately and not with another group of worksheets.
When you create a copy of a worksheet with a table, the table name in the duplicate worksheet will be given a suffix. For example, if the table was called Details, the duplicate worksheet table may be called Details2.
How to copy a worksheet or multiple worksheets to a different workbook
To copy one or more worksheets to a different workbook, select the tabs that you want to copy. To select multiple tabs, hold down control as you left-click on the mouse to select each tab.
Once you have selected the tabs to be duplicated, right-click to open the tabs menu.
From the tab’s menu, select Move or Copy. This will open the Move or Copy Options box.
Using the To Book dropdown, select the workbook you wish to place the duplicated sheets. You can also select a new book to open a new Excel workbook containing the duplicated sheets.
To copy the selected worksheets to the selected workbook, ensure you have included a tick on the Create a copy box and press ok.
What happens to Formulas and Formatting and Tables when you copy a worksheet to a different workbook?
When you copy a worksheet with formulas to a new workbook you can encounter problems. If you copy a worksheet with formulas that reference cells in a different worksheet in the original workbook and you do not copy the reference sheets too, then the formula in the duplicate sheet will contain the original sheet references.
Very often this problem is not spotted and can cause problems at a later stage. To ensure this does not happen when you are copying the worksheets that you also copy any sheets formulas might reference.
Formatting from original worksheets will copy across when you copy a worksheet to a different workbook.
If however a worksheet contains a table, then you can not copy this worksheet across in a group. You must copy this worksheet separately. This means if a worksheet with formulas references a table, you can not copy these as a group and the workbook reference will be included in any formulas that reference the table in the duplicated sheets.
What if you do not want to copy the reference sheets in formulas to a different workbook?
There are often when you do not want to copy all sheets to a different workbook. Yet at the same time, you do not want the workbook references to be added to the formulas in the duplicated sheets. Unfortunately, there is no simple trick to avoid this and we must create a workaround.
Use find and replace.
You can use Find and Replace to find all the workbook names and replace them. To this, press CTRL + F to open Find and Replace. Enter the worksheet name in the Find box and leave the Replace box empty. Select replace all and this will remove the sheet name from all the formulas.
Change source data.
If you have copied a worksheet from a different workbook and it contains links to sheets within the original workbook, you can change the source data to update these formulas to the current workbook.
To do this, first, save the workbook. Then from the Data Ribbon, under the queries and connections group select Edit Links.
The edit link option box will open.
Select Change Source and then navigate to the newly saved file and select the file. The workbook references to the old source will now be change and the formulas will no longer link to the original worksheet.
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there are other ways to copy worksheets, drop a comment below sharing a different method with us.
Have you had problems Copying and Duplicating Excel Worksheets? If so share some details with us and how you overcame the problem
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Заткнулся на казалось-бы элементарной вещи. В открытой книге нужно открыть новую книгу, скопировать из нее в первую книгу лист «Export»и закрыть вторую книгу. Вот кусок кода:
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Sub Макрос1()
Dim xlBook, MyXlBook As Excel.Workbook
Dim AV As Excel.Worksheet
Set MyXlBook = Application.ActiveWorkbook
Filename = Application.GetOpenFilename '
Set xlAPP = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Set xlBook = xlAPP.Workbooks.Open(Filename)
xlBook.Sheets("export").Copy After:=MyXlBook.Sheets(MyXlBook.Sheets.Count)
xlBook.Close True
Set xlBook = Nothing
Set xlAPP = Nothing
End Sub
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Выдает ошибку «Метод Copy из класса WorkSheet завершен неверно.» В архивах на подобную тему прямого ответа не нашел, а код для копирования вроде бы такой-же как у меня. Подскажите, пожалуйста, что не так с моим кодом.
Заранее спасибо, и всех с наступающим праздником.
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I have found similar questions that deal with copying an entire worksheet in one workbook and pasting it to another workbook, but I am interested in simply copying an entire worksheet and pasting it to a new worksheet — in the same workbook.
I’m in the process of converting a 2003 .xls file to 2010 .xlsm and the old method used for copying and pasting between worksheets doesn’t paste with the correct row heights. My initial workaround was to loop through each row and grab the row heights from the worksheet I am copying from, then loop through and insert those values for the row heights in the worksheet I am pasting to, but the problem with this approach is that the sheet contains buttons which generate new rows which changes the row numbering and the format of the sheet is such that all rows cannot just be one width.
What I would really like to be able to do is just simply copy the entire worksheet and paste it. Here is the code from the 2003 version:
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Master").Cells.Copy
newWorksheet.Paste
I’m surprised that converting to .xlsm is causing this to break now. Any suggestions or ideas would be great.
pnuts
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asked Dec 9, 2011 at 0:32
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It is simpler just to run an exact copy like below to put the copy in as the last sheet
Sub Test()
Dim ws1 As Worksheet
Set ws1 = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Master")
ws1.Copy ThisWorkbook.Sheets(Sheets.Count)
End Sub
answered Dec 9, 2011 at 0:49
brettdjbrettdj
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ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Master").Sheet1.Cells.Copy _
Destination:=newWorksheet.Cells
The above will copy the cells. If you really want to duplicate the entire sheet, then I’d go with @brettdj’s answer.
answered Dec 9, 2011 at 7:19
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' Assume that the code name the worksheet is Sheet1
' Copy the sheet using code name and put in the end.
' Note: Using the code name lets the user rename the worksheet without breaking the VBA code
Sheet1.Copy After:=Sheets(Sheets.Count)
' Rename the copied sheet keeping the same name and appending a string " copied"
ActiveSheet.Name = Sheet1.Name & " copied"
answered Mar 31, 2014 at 20:46
thanos.athanos.a
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I really liked @brettdj’s code, but then I found that when I added additional code to edit the copy, it overwrote my original sheet instead. I’ve tweaked his answer so that further code pointed at ws1 will affect the new sheet rather than the original.
Sub Test()
Dim ws1 as Worksheet
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Master").Copy
Set ws1 = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Master (2)")
End Sub
answered Jun 3, 2014 at 19:41
Kes PerronKes Perron
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'Make the excel file that runs the software the active workbook
ThisWorkbook.Activate
'The first sheet used as a temporary place to hold the data
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets(1).Cells.Copy
'Create a new Excel workbook
Dim NewCaseFile As Workbook
Dim strFileName As String
Set NewCaseFile = Workbooks.Add
With NewCaseFile
Sheets(1).Select
Cells(1, 1).Select
End With
ActiveSheet.Paste
Olle Sjögren
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If anyone has, like I do, an Estimating workbook with a default number of visible pricing sheets, a Summary and a larger number of hidden and ‘protected’ worksheets full of sensitive data but may need to create additional visible worksheets to arrive at a proper price, I have variant of the above responses that creates the said visible worksheets based on a protected hidden «Master». I have used the code provided by @/jean-fran%c3%a7ois-corbett and @thanos-a in combination with simple VBA as shown below.
Sub sbInsertWorksheetAfter()
'This adds a new visible worksheet after the last visible worksheet
ThisWorkbook.Sheets.Add After:=Worksheets(Worksheets.Count)
'This copies the content of the HIDDEN "Master" worksheet to the new VISIBLE ActiveSheet just created
ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Master").Cells.Copy _
Destination:=ActiveSheet.Cells
'This gives the the new ActiveSheet a default name
With ActiveSheet
.Name = Sheet12.Name & " copied"
End With
'This changes the name of the ActiveSheet to the user's preference
Dim sheetname As String
With ActiveSheet
sheetname = InputBox("Enter name of this Worksheet")
.Name = sheetname
End With
End Sub
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08-11-2005, 04:05 PM
#1
Can’t copy an Excel worksheet
I have been unable to make a copy of a worksheet within a file or by copying
it to a new workbook. When I try copying it to a new file, the new workbook
appears temporarily and then disappears. Any suggestions would be
appreciated.I am using Excel 2002.
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08-11-2005, 09:05 PM
#2
Re: Can’t copy an Excel worksheet
How are you copying the worksheet?
ctrl-click and drag
click on the worksheet tab and edit|move or copy worksheet.
I’ve never had any trouble with this kind of thing. Maybe you could try doing
the same stuff when you start excel in safe mode.close excel
windows start button|run
excel /safeFile|open your workbook
and copy that worksheet.======
Another alternative while you’re trying to figure out what’s going on.Open your workbook
file|Save as|a nice new name
delete the worksheets you don’t want.
Save that new workbook with just that worksheet.Gaby wrote:
>
> I have been unable to make a copy of a worksheet within a file or by copying
> it to a new workbook. When I try copying it to a new file, the new workbook
> appears temporarily and then disappears. Any suggestions would be
> appreciated.
>
> I am using Excel 2002.—
Dave Peterson
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08-12-2005, 09:05 AM
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Re: Can’t copy an Excel worksheet
Thanks, Dave. In the end I did your last option. It seems to be a corrupted
workbook.
«Dave Peterson» wrote:
> How are you copying the worksheet?
>
> ctrl-click and drag
>
> click on the worksheet tab and edit|move or copy worksheet.
>
> I’ve never had any trouble with this kind of thing. Maybe you could try doing
> the same stuff when you start excel in safe mode.
>
> close excel
> windows start button|run
> excel /safe
>
> File|open your workbook
> and copy that worksheet.
>
> ======
> Another alternative while you’re trying to figure out what’s going on.
>
> Open your workbook
> file|Save as|a nice new name
> delete the worksheets you don’t want.
> Save that new workbook with just that worksheet.
>
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08-12-2005, 10:05 AM
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Re: Can’t copy an Excel worksheet
If you think it’s corrupted, then I think you may want to start rebuilding it.
If the workbook ever gets so bad you can’t open it, well, you know the rest of
the warning!===
Ps. The one workbook that I had that was corrupted had the same kind of
problem. I could move the sheet, but I couldn’t copy it. I rebuilt that one
sheet and haven’t had any trouble since. (But man, oh, man, it was a pain
rebuilding the worksheet.)Gaby wrote:
>
> Thanks, Dave. In the end I did your last option. It seems to be a corrupted
> workbook.
>
> «Dave Peterson» wrote:
>
> > How are you copying the worksheet?
> >
> > ctrl-click and drag
> >
> > click on the worksheet tab and edit|move or copy worksheet.
> >
> > I’ve never had any trouble with this kind of thing. Maybe you could try doing
> > the same stuff when you start excel in safe mode.
> >
> > close excel
> > windows start button|run
> > excel /safe
> >
> > File|open your workbook
> > and copy that worksheet.
> >
> > ======
> > Another alternative while you’re trying to figure out what’s going on.
> >
> > Open your workbook
> > file|Save as|a nice new name
> > delete the worksheets you don’t want.
> > Save that new workbook with just that worksheet.
> >—
Dave Peterson
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Afternoon all,
Can someone take a look at this for me? This workbook, which is unprotected, will not let me copy or move an existing sheet, or create a new one.
What have I done?
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Any ideas?
Also, I cannot move the Pivot Table from the new Worksheet it is created in, to my existing Worksheet.
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I have a Worksheet with a small amount of data, and when I click the Pivot Table button it automatically creates the Pivot Table in a new Worksheet. The Pivot Table data is fine, but I want it to display alongside the source data.
I’ve tried using the Move Pivot Table option and choosing to Create Pivot Table in Existing Worksheet and choosing a source cell alongside my current data, but nothing appears. Also, I checked in Edit menu and found that the Pivot Table appears to have not even been created/moved because there is no option to undo it.
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Some time ago I created a spreadsheet and greyed out the areas that weren’t needed. Now I need to expand the spreadsheet and use more columns. Trouble is I’ve forgotten how to unhide those columns. I didn’t write any macros and usings the right-click unhide method is proven futile. The sheet isn’t protected which is puzzling since I can’t get the mouse to even highlight any of the greyed out areas.
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The problem I have now is that if someone was to filter by something then the ‘next cell down’ could be hidden behind the filter (by that I mean it didn’t meet the filter criteria).
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
James
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Is this possible?
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Hi all,
I hope you can help me with what I would like to do. I’ve searched and searched and not come up with anything yet!!
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Any help you can give would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
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Hi there, longtime user firsttime poster. Looking for some help as I am a non-expert with macros. Here’s what I’m trying to do:
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Hi guys,
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Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance
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Hello all,
I have a Microsoft Excel 2010 user (who is quite an experienced user) that is having trouble copying worksheets to a new workbook. When she right-clicked on the tab of the worksheet she wants to copy and then chooses
Move or copy… , all of her open workbooks do not appear in the To book
dropdown. I copied both workbooks to the same folder on the Desktop, then opened them both, but the workbooks do not show in the dropdown. This is happening for all files on her machine, not just these two particular files. It is only
happening with this one user; I have not heard of this situation from anyone else in the organization (and cannot replicate the issue on my own computer). She is using Windows 7.When she first called to report the issue, I didn’t believe her, but sure enough the problem is there. I’ve done searches of this forum, searches of google, and nothing seems to come up (other than you cannot open workbooks in seperate instances, which
is not the problem here).Any ideas or words of wisdom?
Regards,
Nicole
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Hello all,
I have a Microsoft Excel 2010 user (who is quite an experienced user) that is having trouble copying worksheets to a new workbook. When she right-clicked on the tab of the worksheet she wants to copy and then chooses
Move or copy… , all of her open workbooks do not appear in the To book
dropdown. I copied both workbooks to the same folder on the Desktop, then opened them both, but the workbooks do not show in the dropdown. This is happening for all files on her machine, not just these two particular files. It is only
happening with this one user; I have not heard of this situation from anyone else in the organization (and cannot replicate the issue on my own computer). She is using Windows 7.When she first called to report the issue, I didn’t believe her, but sure enough the problem is there. I’ve done searches of this forum, searches of google, and nothing seems to come up (other than you cannot open workbooks in seperate instances, which
is not the problem here).Any ideas or words of wisdom?
Regards,
Nicole
I just tried moving a sheet from one book to another. I had four books open before I started. I have a habbit of opening everything in a new instance of Excel. When I went to move a sheet from one book to another, it only gave me the options of the book
I was in or «new book» even though I had four Excel files open. Then in the same instane of Excel, I opened another book by navigating File —> Recent to have two books open in the same instance. I then went to copy a sheet and the books it showed as available
were the book I had already open, and this second book which I opened in the same instance of Excel. It still did not show the other three books which were opened in their each instance of Excel. This tells me that (at least on my machine anyway) if you want
to copy a sheet from one book to another, both books should be opened in the same instance of Excel at the same time.-
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