Vba excel table column

Tables are one of the most powerful features of Excel.  Controlling them using VBA provides a way to automate that power, which generates a double benefit 🙂

Excel likes to store data within tables.  The basic structural rules, such as (a) headings must be unique (b) only one header row allowed, make tables compatible with more complex tools.  For example, Power Query, Power Pivot, and SharePoint lists all use tables as either a source or an output.  Therefore, it is clearly Microsoft’s intention that we use tables.

However, the biggest benefit to the everyday Excel user is much simpler; if we add new data to the bottom of a table, any formulas referencing the table will automatically expand to include the new data.

Whether you love tables as much as I do or not, this post will help you automate them with VBA.

Tables, as we know them today, first appeared in Excel 2007.  This was a replacement for the Lists functionality found in Excel 2003.  From a VBA perspective, the document object model (DOM) did not change with the upgraded functionality.  So, while we use the term ‘tables’ in Excel, they are still referred to as ListObjects within VBA.

Download the example file

I recommend you download the example file for this post.  Then you’ll be able to work along with examples and see the solution in action, plus the file will be useful for future reference.

Download the file: 0009 VBA tables and ListObjects.zip

Structure of a table

Before we get deep into any VBA code, it’s useful to understand how tables are structured.

Range & Data Body Range

The range is the whole area of the table.

The data body range only includes the rows of data, it excludes the header and totals.

Header and total rows

The header row range is the top row of the table containing the column headers.

The totals row range, if displayed, includes calculations at the bottom of the table.

List columns and list rows

The individual columns are known as list columns.

Each row is known as a list row.

The VBA code in this post details how to manage all these table objects.

Referencing the parts of a table

While you may be tempted to skip this section, I recommend you read it in full and work through the examples.  Understanding Excel’s document object model is the key to reading and writing VBA code.  Master this, and your ability to write your own VBA code will be much higher.

Many of the examples in this first section use the select method, this is to illustrate how to reference parts of the table.  In reality, you would rarely use the select method.

Select the entire table

The following macro will select the whole table, including the totals and header rows.

Sub SelectTable()

ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").Range.Select

End Sub

Select the data within a table

The DataBodyRange excludes the header and totals sections of the table.

Sub SelectTableData()

ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").DataBodyRange.Select

End Sub

Get a value from an individual cell within a table

The following macro retrieves the table value from row 2, column 4, and displays it in a message box.

Sub GetValueFromTable()

MsgBox ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").DataBodyRange(2, 4).value

End Sub

Select an entire column

The macro below shows how to select a column by its position, or by its name.

Sub SelectAnEntireColumn()

'Select column based on position
ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ListColumns(2).Range.Select

'Select column based on name
ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ListColumns("Category").Range.Select

End Sub

Select a column (data only)

This is similar to the macro above, but it uses the DataBodyRange to only select the data; it excludes the headers and totals.

Sub SelectColumnData()

'Select column data based on position
ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ListColumns(4).DataBodyRange.Select

'Select column data based on name
ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ListColumns("Category").DataBodyRange.Select

End Sub

Select a specific column header

This macro shows how to select the column header cell of the 5th column.

Sub SelectCellInHeader()

ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").HeaderRowRange(5).Select

End Sub

Select a specific column within the totals section

This example demonstrates how to select the cell in the totals row of the 3rd column.

Sub SelectCellInTotal()

ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").TotalsRowRange(3).Select

End Sub

Select an entire row of data

The macro below selects the 3rd row of data from the table.

NOTE – The header row is not included as a ListRow.  Therefore, ListRows(3) is the 3rd row within the DataBodyRange, and not the 3rd row from the top of the table.

Sub SelectRowOfData()

ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ListRows(3).Range.Select

End Sub

Select the header row

The following macro selects the header section of the table.

Sub SelectHeaderSection()

ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").HeaderRowRange.Select

End Sub

Select the totals row

To select the totals row of the table, use the following code.

Sub SelectTotalsSection()

ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").TotalsRowRange.Select

End Sub

OK, now we know how to reference the parts of a table, it’s time to get into some more interesting examples.

Creating and converting tables

This section of macros focuses on creating and resizing tables.

Convert selection to a table

The macro below creates a table based on the currently selected region and names it as myTable.  The range is referenced as Selection.CurrentRegion, but this can be substituted for any range object.

If you’re working along with the example file, this macro will trigger an error, as a table called myTable already exists in the workbook.  A new table will still be created with a default name, but the VBA code will error at the renaming step.

Sub ConvertRangeToTable()

tableName As String
Dim tableRange As Range

Set tableName = "myTable"
Set tableRange = Selection.CurrentRegion
ActiveSheet.ListObjects.Add(SourceType:=xlSrcRange, _
    Source:=tableRange, _
    xlListObjectHasHeaders:=xlYes _
    ).Name = tableName

End Sub

Convert a table back to a range

This macro will convert a table back to a standard range.

Sub ConvertTableToRange()

ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").Unlist

End Sub

NOTE – Unfortunately, when converting a table to a standard range, the table formatting is not removed.  Therefore, the cells may still look like a table, even when they are not – that’s frustrating!!!

Resize the range of the table

To following macro resizes a table to cell A1 – J100.

Sub ResizeTableRange()

ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").Resize Range("$A$1:$J$100")

End Sub

Table styles

There are many table formatting options, the most common of which are shown below.

Change the table style

Change the style of a table to an existing pre-defined style.

Sub ChangeTableStyle()

ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").TableStyle = "TableStyleLight15"

End Sub

To apply different table styles, the easiest method is to use the macro recorder.  The recorded VBA code will include the name of any styles you select.

Get the table style name

Use the following macro to get the name of the style already applied to a table.

Sub GetTableStyleName()

MsgBox ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").TableStyle

End Sub

Apply a style to the first or last column

The first and last columns of a table can be formatted differently using the following macros.

Sub ColumnStyles()

'Apply special style to first column
ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ShowTableStyleFirstColumn = True

'Apply special style to last column
ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ShowTableStyleLastColumn = True

End Sub

Adding or removing stripes

By default, tables have banded rows, but there are other options for this, such as removing row banding or adding column banding.

Sub ChangeStripes()

'Apply column stripes
ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ShowTableStyleColumnStripes = True

'Remove row stripes
ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ShowTableStyleRowStripes = False

End Sub

Set the default table style

The following macro sets the default table style.

Sub SetDefaultTableStyle()

'Set default table style
ActiveWorkbook.DefaultTableStyle = "TableStyleMedium2"

End Sub

Looping through tables

The macros in this section loop through all the tables on the worksheet or workbook.

Loop through all tables on a worksheet

If we want to run a macro on every table of a worksheet, we must loop through the ListObjects collection.

Sub LoopThroughAllTablesWorksheet()

'Create variables to hold the worksheet and the table
Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim tbl As ListObject

Set ws = ActiveSheet
'Loop through each table in worksheet
For Each tbl In ws.ListObjects

    'Do something to the Table....

Next tbl

End Sub

In the code above, we have set the table to a variable, so we must refer to the table in the right way.  In the section labeled ‘Do something to the table…, insert the action to be undertaken on each table, using tbl to reference the table.

For example, the following will change the table style of every table.

tbl.TableStyle = "TableStyleLight15"

Loop through all tables in a workbook

Rather than looping through a single worksheet, as shown above, the macro below loops through every table on every worksheet.

Sub LoopThroughAllTablesWorkbook()

'Create variables to hold the worksheet and the table
Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim tbl As ListObject

'Loop through each worksheet
For Each ws In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets

    'Loop through each table in worksheet
    For Each tbl In ws.ListObjects

        'Do something to the Table....

    Next tbl

Next ws

End Sub

As noted in the section above, we must refer to the table using its variable.  For example, the following will display the totals row for every table.

tbl.ShowTotals = True

Adding & removing rows and columns

The following macros add and remove rows, headers, and totals from a table.

Add columns into a table

The following macro adds a column to a table.

Sub AddColumnToTable()

'Add column at the end
ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ListColumns.Add

'Add column at position 2
ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ListColumns.Add Position:=2
End Sub

Add rows to the bottom of a table

The next macro will add a row to the bottom of a table

Sub AddRowsToTable()

'Add row at bottom
ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ListRows.Add

'Add row at the first row
ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ListRows.Add Position:=1
End Sub

Delete columns from a table

To delete a column, it is necessary to use either the column index number or the column header.

Sub DeleteColumnsFromTable()

'Delete column 2
ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ListColumns(2).Delete

'Delete a column by name
ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ListColumns("Feb").Delete
End Sub

Delete rows from a table

In the table structure, rows do not have names, and therefore can only be deleted by referring to the row number.

Sub DeleteRowsFromTable()

'Delete row 2
ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ListRows(2).Delete

'Delete multiple rows
ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").Range.Rows("4:6").Delete
End Sub

Add total row to a table

The total row at the bottom of a table can be used for calculations.

Sub AddTotalRowToTable()

'Display total row with value in last column
ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ShowTotals = True

'Change the total for the "Total Column" to an average
ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ListColumns("TotalColumn").TotalsCalculation = _
    xlTotalsCalculationAverage

'Totals can be added by position, rather than name
ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ListColumns(2).TotalsCalculation = _
    xlTotalsCalculationAverage
End Sub

Types of totals calculation

xlTotalsCalculationNone
xlTotalsCalculationAverage
xlTotalsCalculationCount
xlTotalsCalculationCountNums
xlTotalsCalculationMax
xlTotalsCalculationMin
xlTotalsCalculationSum
xlTotalsCalculationStdDev
xlTotalsCalculationVar

Table header visability

Table headers can be turned on or off.   The following will hide the headers.

Sub ChangeTableHeader()

ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ShowHeaders = False

End Sub

Remove auto filter

The auto filter can be hidden.  Please note, the table header must be visible for this code to work.

Sub RemoveAutoFilter()

ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ShowAutoFilterDropDown = False

End Sub

I have a separate post about controlling auto filter settings – check it out here.  Most of that post applies to tables too.

Other range techniques

Other existing VBA techniques for managing ranges can also be applied to tables.

Using the union operator

To select multiple ranges, we can use VBA’s union operator. Here is an example, it will select rows 4, 1, and 3.

Sub SelectMultipleRangesUnionOperator()

Union(ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ListRows(4).Range, _
    ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ListRows(1).Range, _
    ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ListRows(3).Range).Select

End Sub

Assign values from a variant array to a table row

To assign values to an entire row from a variant array, use code similar to the following:

Sub AssignValueToTableFromArray()

'Assing values to array (for illustration)
Dim myArray As Variant
myArray = Range("A2:D2")

'Assign values in array to the table
ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ListRows(2).Range.Value = myArray

End Sub

Reference parts of a table using the range object

Within VBA, a table can be referenced as if it were a standard range object.

Sub SelectTablePartsAsRange()

ActiveSheet.Range("myTable[Category]").Select

End Sub

Counting rows and columns

Often, it is useful to count the number of rows or columns.  This is a good method to reference rows or columns which have been added.

Counting rows

To count the number of rows within the table, use the following macro.

Sub CountNumberOfRows()

Msgbox ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ListRows.Count

End Sub

Counting columns

The following macro will count the number of columns within the table.

Sub CountNumberOfColumns()

Msgbox ActiveSheet.ListObjects("myTable").ListColumns.Count

End Sub

Useful table techniques

The following are some other useful VBA codes for controlling tables.

Show the table data entry form

If a table starts at cell A1, there is a simple data entry form that can be displayed.

Sub ShowDataEntryForm()

'Only works if Table starts at Cell A1
ActiveSheet.ShowDataForm

End Sub

The following screenshot shows the data form for the example table.

Check if a table exists

The following macro checks if a table already exists within a workbook.  Change the tblName variable to adapt this to your requirements.

Sub CheckIfTableExists()

'Create variables to hold the worksheet and the table
Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim tbl As ListObject
Dim tblName As String
Dim tblExists As Boolean

tblName = "myTable"

'Loop through eac worksheet
For Each ws In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets

    'Loop through each table in worksheet
    For Each tbl In ws.ListObjects

        If tbl.Name = tblName Then

            tblExists = True

        End If

    Next tbl

Next ws

If tblExists = True Then

    MsgBox "Table " & tblName & " exists."

Else

    MsgBox "Table " & tblName & " does not exists."

End If

End Sub

Find out if a table has been selected, if so which

The following macros find the name of the selected table.

Method 1

As you will see in the comments Jon Peltier had an easy approach to this, which has now become my preferred approach.

Sub SimulateActiveTable()

Dim ActiveTable As ListObject

On Error Resume Next
Set ActiveTable = ActiveCell.ListObject
On Error GoTo 0

'Confirm if a cell is in a Table
If ActiveTable Is Nothing Then
    MsgBox "Select table and try again"
Else
    MsgBox "The active cell is in a Table called: " & ActiveTable.Name
End If

End Sub

Method 2

This option, which was my original method, loops through each table on the worksheet and checks if they intersect with the active cell.

Sub SimulateActiveTable_Method2()

Dim ActiveTable As ListObject
Dim tbl As ListObject

'Loop through each table, check if table intersects with active cell
For Each tbl In ActiveSheet.ListObjects

    If Not Intersect(ActiveCell, tbl.Range) Is Nothing Then

        Set ActiveTable = tbl
        MsgBox "The active cell is in a Table called: " & ActiveTable.Name
    
    End If

Next tbl

'If no intersection then no tabl selected
If ActiveTable Is Nothing Then

    MsgBox "Select an Excel table and try again"

End If

End Sub

Conclusion

Wow!  That was a lot of code examples. 

There are over 30 VBA macros above, and even this does not cover everything, but hopefully covers 99% of your requirements. For your remaining requirements, you could try Microsoft’s VBA object reference library (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/Excel.ListObject)

This tutorial will demonstrate how to work with Tables and ListObjects in VBA.

VBA Tables and ListObjects

Tables are one of Excel’s most useful and powerful features, in this tutorial, we will go over how to use VBA to create a table, add a simple sort to a table, filter a table and perform other table-related tasks.

Create a Table With VBA

The ListObjects.Add Method can add a table to a worksheet, based on a range in that worksheet. We have the range shown in ($A$1:$B$8) on a worksheet called Sheet1.

The following code will add a table, called Table1 to your worksheet, based on the range ($A$1:$B$8) using the default Table Style:

Sub CreateTableInExcel()

ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").ListObjects.Add(xlSrcRange, Range("$A$1:$B$8"), , xlYes).Name = _
"Table1"

End Sub

The result is:

Inserting a Column at the End of the Table with VBA

You can use the ListColumns.Add method in order to add a column to the end of your table. We have our table called Table1 shown below.

You can add a column to your table using the following code, which will always add a column to the end of the table:

Sub AddColumnToTheEndOfTheTable()

ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").ListObjects("Table1").ListColumns.Add

End Sub

The result is:

Inserting a Row at the Bottom of the Table with VBA

You can use the ListRows.Add method to add a row to the bottom of your table. We have our table called Table1 shown below.

The following code will always add a row to the bottom of your table.

Sub AddRowToTheBottomOfTheTable()

ActiveSheet.ListObjects("Table1").ListRows.Add

End Sub

The result is:

Adding a Simple Sort with VBA

You can sort a table with VBA. We have our table called Table1 shown below and we can use VBA to sort the Sales Column from lowest to highest.

The following code will sort the Sales column in ascending order.

Sub SimpleSortOnTheTable()

Range("Table1[[#Headers],[Sales]]").Select
ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").ListObjects("Table1").Sort.SortFields.Clear
ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").ListObjects("Table1").Sort.SortFields.Add _
Key:=Range("Table1[[#All],[Sales]]"), SortOn:=xlSortOnValues, Order:= _
xlAscending, DataOption:=xlSortNormal

With ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").ListObjects("Table1").Sort

.Header = xlYes
.MatchCase = False
.Orientation = xlTopToBottom
.SortMethod = xlPinYin
.Apply

End With

End Sub

The result is:

Filter a Table With VBA

You can also filter an Excel table using VBA. We have our table called Table1 and we would like to filter the table so that only sales of greater than 1500 are shown.

We can use the Autofilter method, which has five optional parameters. Since we’d like to filter the Sales column which is the second column we set the Field to 2, and we use the xlAnd operator parameter, which is used for dates and numbers.

Sub SimpleFilter()

 ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").ListObjects("Table1").Range.AutoFilter Field:=2, Criteria1:= _
 ">1500", Operator:=xlAnd

End Sub

The result is:

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Clear the Filter with the ShowAllData Method in VBA

You can access the ShowAllData Method of the Worksheet class in order to clear the filter. If it’s a table’s filter(s) that you want to clear, then you first have to select a cell in the table, which you can do in VBA.

The ShowAllData method will generate an error if one does not use conditional logic in order to check if there has been a filter applied in the worksheet. The following code shows you how to do this:

Sub ClearingTheFilter()

Range("Table1[[#Headers],[Sales]]").Select
If ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").FilterMode = True Then
ActiveSheet.ShowAllData

End If

End Sub

Clear All Filters From An Excel Table

You can access the ShowAllData Method of the ListObject class without having to select a cell in the table first. The following code shows you how to do this:

Sub ClearAllTableFilters()
ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").ListObjects("Table1").AutoFilter.ShowAllData
End Sub

Deleting A Row With VBA

You can delete a row in the databody of your table using the ListRows.Delete method. You have to specify which row using the row number. We have the following table called Table1.

Let’s say you wanted to delete the second row in the databody of your table, the following code would allow you to do this:

Sub DeleteARow()

ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").ListObjects("Table1").ListRows(2).Delete

End Sub

The result is:

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Deleting a Column With VBA

You can delete a column from your table using the ListColumns.Delete method. We have the following table called Table1 shown below:

In order to delete the first column, you would use the following code:

Sub DeleteAColumn()

ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").ListObjects("Table1").ListColumns(1).Delete

End Sub

The result is:

Converting a Table Back to a Range in VBA

You can convert a table back to a normal range using VBA. The following code shows you how to convert a table called Table1 back to a range:

Sub ConvertingATableBackToANormalRange()

ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").ListObjects("Table1").Unlist

End Sub

Adding Banded Columns and formatting to all the Tables in a Worksheet using VBA

You can access all the tables in your worksheet using the ListObjects collection. In the sheet below we have two tables and we would like to add a Banded Column to both the tables at once and change the font of the data section of both tables to bold, using VBA.

Sub AddingBandedColumns()

Dim tbl As ListObject
Dim sht As Worksheet

Set sht = ThisWorkbook.ActiveSheet

For Each tbl In sht.ListObjects
tbl.ShowTableStyleColumnStripes = True
tbl.DataBodyRange.Font.Bold = True
Next tbl

End Sub

The result is:

Creating a Table in Access in VBA Using DoCmd.RunSQL

One of the main ways to create a table in Access in VBA, is through using the DoCmd.RunSQL method to run an action query with a SQL statement.

We have a button on our sample form and when we click on the button we’d like to create a table called ProductsTable with two fields or columns, one would be the primary key field called ProductsID and the other would be a field called Sales.

In order to create this table we would use the following code:

Private Sub cmdCreateProductsTable_Click()

DoCmd.RunSQL "CREATE TABLE ProductsTable " _
& "(ProductID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, Sales Integer);"

End Sub

The result is:

Filtering a Table in Access Using VBA

You can also filter a table in Access using the DoCmd.ApplyFilter method. We have our simple table shown below in Access called ProductsTable.

We would like to press this button on our form and then only see Sales that are greater than 1500.

So, we would use the following code to do this:

Private Sub cmdFilter_Click()

DoCmd.OpenTable "ProductsTable"

DoCmd.ApplyFilter , "[Sales]>1500"

End Sub

The result is:

I know the thread is old, but I must point out that the most upvoted answer here is risky and can get you in a serious trouble. I don’t know if it depends Excel version — I use Excel’16.

Let’s consider table containing columns: col A, col B and col C.

We use «The Dudes» one-liner code and want to name our new column «Col B». It already exists but check what happens:

Sub theDude()

  Dim Table As ListObject
  Set Table = ActiveSheet.ListObjects(1)
  
  With Table
  
    ' adding column on the second place
    ' and trying to force its header to "Col B"
    .ListColumns.Add(2).Name = "Col B"
    
    'fill "Col B" with value
    .ListColumns("Col B").DataBodyRange = "test"
    
  End With
  
End Sub

And what we get? In result we have 4 columns:

• Col A
• New inserted Column1 or another DEFAULT NAME of Table’s column (1)
• Col B — the «old» B column filled with «test» string
• Col C

(1) it depends on yours language version- mine is called Kolumna1 and it’s given by Excel automatically

The worst thing is our data in Col B is lost after macro run. So I would suggest instead one-liner (methods chaining) use @stenci’s step by step solution, or even better add some error handling e.g.:

Sub AddingColumn()

  Dim Table As ListObject
  ' ActiveSheet just for test
  Set Table = ActiveSheet.ListObjects(1)   
  
  Dim newColName As Variant     ' or string / long
      newColName = "Col B"
      
  If headerExists(newColName, Table) Then
 
    Dim tit As String:  tit = "Error"
    Dim txt As String
        txt = "Header " & newColName & " already exists. Macro will be interrupted"

        MsgBox txt, vbOKOnly, tit
        Exit Sub
    
  Else
    
    ' main code goes here *********************
    With Table
      ' adding column on the second place
      ' and trying to force its header to "Col B"
        .ListColumns.Add(2).Name = newColName
      'fill "Col B" with value
        .ListColumns("Col B").DataBodyRange = "test"
    End With
    
  End If
  
End Sub

Function headerExists(ByVal findHeader As String, ByVal tbl As ListObject) As Boolean
    
    Dim pos As Variant     ' position
        pos = Application.Match(findHeader, tbl.HeaderRowRange, 0)
        
        headerExists = Not IsError(pos)

End Function

VBA Add Column to Table in Excel. We can add a single Column or multiple Columns and data to table. Default new Columns added at the end of the table. In this tutorial we have explained multiple examples with explanation. We also shown example output screenshots. We have specified three examples in the following tutorial. You can change table and sheet name as per your requirement. We also specified step by step instructions how to run VBA macro code at the end of the session.

Table of Formats:

• Objective
• Syntax to Add Column to Table using VBA in Excel
• Example to Add New Column to Table on the Worksheet in Excel
• Add Multiple Columns to Table in Excel using VBA
• Add Column & Data to Table on the Worksheet in Excel
• Instructions to Run VBA Macro Code
• Other Useful Resources

Syntax to Add Column to Table using VBA in Excel

Here is the syntax to add new Column to table on the worksheet using VBA in Excel.

expression.Add(Position, AlwaysInsert)

Where expression represents the ListColumns.
Position is an optional parameter. It represents the relative position of the new Column. Accepts the Integer value.
AlwaysInsert is an optional parameter. It represents the cells to be shifted to down or not, based on Boolean value. Accepts the Boolean value either True or False.

Note: If position is not specified, default adds new Column at the end of the table.

Example to Add New Column to Table on the Worksheet

Let us see the example to add new column to table on the worksheet. The sheet name defined as ‘Table‘. And we use table name as ‘MyDynamicTable‘. You can change these two as per your requirement. We Add method of the ListObject object.

'Add Column to Table in Excel VBA
Sub VBAF1_Add_Column_to_Table()
    
    'Declare Variables
    Dim oSheetName As Worksheet
    Dim sTableName As String
    Dim loTable As ListObject
    
    'Define Variable
    sTableName = "MyDynamicTable"
    
    'Define WorkSheet object
    Set oSheetName = Sheets("Table")
    
    'Define Table Object
    Set loTable = oSheetName.ListObjects(sTableName)
    
    'Add column to the table
    loTable.ListColumns.Add
    
End Sub

Output: Here is the following output screenshot of above example macro VBA code.

Add Multiple Columns to Table in Excel using VBA

Here is another example to add multiple columns to table. In this example we add five(5) columns to the table. You can specify the number of columns count in the for loop.

 'VBA Add Multiple Columns to Table
Sub VBAF1_Add_Multiple_Columns_to_Table()
    
    'Declare Variables
    Dim oSheetName As Worksheet
    Dim sTableName As String
    Dim loTable As ListObject
    Dim iCnt As Integer
    
    'Define Variable
    sTableName = "MyDynamicTable"
    
    'Define WorkSheet object
    Set oSheetName = Sheets("Table")
    
    'Define Table Object
    Set loTable = oSheetName.ListObjects(sTableName)
    
    For iCnt = 1 To 5
        'Add multiple columns to the table
        loTable.ListColumns.Add
    Next
    
End Sub

Output: Let us see the following output screenshot of above example macro VBA code.

Add Column & Data to Table on the Worksheet in Excel

Let us see how to add new column and data to the table using VBA in Excel. In the below example we add new column and data of 5 columns.

 'VBA Add Column and Data to Table
Sub VBAF1_Add_Column_And_Data_to_Table()
    
    'Declare Variables
    Dim oSheetName As Worksheet
    Dim sTableName As String
    Dim loTable As ListObject
    Dim lrColumn As ListColumn
    
    'Define Variable
    sTableName = "MyDynamicTable"
    
    'Define WorkSheet object
    Set oSheetName = Sheets("Table")
    
    'Define Table Object
    Set loTable = oSheetName.ListObjects(sTableName)
    
    'Add New Column to the table
    Set lrColumn = loTable.ListColumns.Add
    
    'Add Data to recently added column
    With lrColumn
        'Ignore Range(1), because its header not a data range.
        .Range(2) = 61
        .Range(3) = 62
        .Range(4) = 63
        .Range(5) = 64
        .Range(6) = 65
        .Range(7) = 66
        .Range(8) = 67
        .Range(9) = 68
        .Range(10) = 69
        .Range(11) = 70
    End With
       
End Sub

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