What is the sheet name in excel

Naming

Excel names your worksheets based on the number of worksheets that have been created in that workbook.
You can easily change the name of your worksheets and this can be done in three ways:
1) Using the (Format > Sheet) sub menu.
2) Using the Worksheet Shortcut menu .
3) Using the Mouse to double click the worksheet name.

You can also use the (Format > Sheet) sub menu and select Rename.

Alternatively you can use the shortcut menu by right mouse clicking on the worksheet tab and selecting «Rename».

Using the Mouse

You can double click the sheet tab with the left mouse button.
To confirm your entry click on any cell or select another sheet.
You can keep the previous sheet name by pressing ESC before confirming.

Naming Conventions

Your worksheet names cannot have more than 31 characters and using the space is not recommended.
Giving your worksheets descriptive names will help you to remember where the data is stored.
They must obviously be unique within the workbook and cannot contain any of the following characters , / , * , ? , : , [ , ].

Important

Try to avoid really long descriptive names as these will be displayed on the tab at the bottom of your workbook.
Sheet names cannot be longer than 31 characters.
The default naming convention for worksheets is Sheet1, Sheet2, etc.
The worksheet name » History » cannot be used, in either upper or lower case. A worksheet with this name is used with the Track Changes feature so this name cannot be used to avoid any confusion. If you try and rename a sheet with this name you will get the message «History is a reserved name».

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Get sheet name only

Summary

To get the name of the current worksheet (i.e. current tab) you can use a formula based on the CELL function together with the TEXTAFTER function. In the example shown, the formula in E5 is:

The result is «September» the name of the current worksheet in the workbook shown. In older versions of Excel which do not provide the TEXTAFTER function, you can use an alternate formula based on the MID and FIND function. Both approaches are explained below.

Generic formula

Explanation

In this example, the goal is to return the name of the current worksheet (i.e. tab) in the current workbook with a formula. This is a simple problem in the latest version of Excel, which provides the TEXTAFTER function. In older versions of Excel, you can use an alternative formula based on the MID and FIND functions. Both formula options rely on the CELL function to get a full path to the current workbook. Read below for a full explanation.

Workbook path

The first step in this problem is to get the workbook path, which includes the workbook and worksheet name. This can be done with the CELL function like this:

With the info_type argument set to «filename», and reference set to cell A1 in the current worksheet, the result from CELL is a full path as a text string like this:

Notice the sheet name begins after the closing square bracket («]»). The problem now becomes how to extract the sheet name from the path? The best way to do this depends on your Excel version. Use the TEXTAFTER function if available. Otherwise, use the MID and FIND functions as explained below.

TEXTAFTER function

In Excel 365, the easiest option is to use the TEXTAFTER function with the CELL function like this:

The CELL function returns the full path to the current workbook as explained above, and this text string is delivered to TEXTAFTER as the text argument. Delimiter is set to «]» in order to retrieve only text that occurs after the closing square bracket («]»). In the example shown, the final result is «September» the name of the current worksheet in the workbook shown.

MID + FIND function

In older versions of Excel that do not offer the TEXTAFTER function, you can use the MID function with the FIND function to extract the sheet name:

The core of this formula is the MID function, which is used to extract text starting at a specific position in a text string. Working from the inside out, the first CELL function returns the full path to the current workbook to the MID function as the text argument:

We then need to tell MID where to start extracting text. To do this, we use the FIND function with a second call to the CELL function to locate the «]» character. We want MID to start extracting text after the «]» character, so we use the FIND function to get the position, then add 1:

The result from the above snippet is returned to the MID function as start_num. For the num_chars argument, we hard-code the number 255*. The MID function doesn’t care if the number of characters requested is larger than the length of the remaining text, it simply extracts all remaining text. The final result is «September» the name of the current worksheet in the workbook shown.

*Note: In Excel user interface, you can’t name a worksheet longer than 31 characters, but the file format itself permits worksheet names up to 255 characters, so this ensures the entire name is retrieved.

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Sheet Name Code

This article outlines how to display the name of a sheet in Excel.

What is Sheet Name Code Excel Formula?

In Excel, if you want to display the name of a Sheet in a cell, you can use a combination of formulas to display it. Using the sheet name code Excel formula requires combining the MID, CELL, and FIND functions into one formula.

For example, if you are printing out a financial model onto paper or as a PDF, then you may want to display the sheet name on the top of each page. You can now easily do so by using this formula.

Sheet name code Excel formula

=MID(CELL(“filename”,A1),FIND(“]”,CELL(“filename”,A1))+1,500)

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Example of creating the sheet name code Excel

Step 1: Type “CELL(“filename”,A1)”. The cell function is used to get the full filename and path. This function returns the filename of .xls workbook, including the sheet name. This is our starting point, and then we need to remove the file name part and leave only the sheet name.

Step 2: Type “FIND(“]”,CELL(“filename”)+1,500″. Essentially what the formula does is go into the file name and find the “]” which is where the workbook name ends. From there it moves over one character (+1) to where the sheet name starts. Finally, we add 500 to the end, or any number that is larger than the number of characters a sheet name would realistically have.

Congratulations, you have now displayed the name of a sheet in Excel!

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How to Get the Sheet Name in Excel? Easy Formula

When working with Excel spreadsheets, sometimes you may have a need to get the name of the worksheet.

While you can always manually enter the sheet name, it won’t update in case the sheet name is changed.

So if you want to get the sheet name, so that it automatically updates when the name is changed, you can use a simple formula in Excel.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to get the sheet name in Excel using a simple formula.

This Tutorial Covers:

Get Sheet Name Using the CELL Function

CELL function in Excel allows you to quickly get information about the cell in which the function is used.

This function also allows us to get the entire file name as a result of the formula.

Suppose I have an Excel workbook with the sheet name ‘Sales Data’

Below is the formula that I have used in any cells in the ‘Sales Data’ worksheet:

As you can see, it gave me the whole address of the file in which I am using this formula.

But I needed only the sheet name, not the whole file address,

Well, to get the sheet name only, we will have to use this formula along with some other text formulas, so that it can extract only the sheet name.

Below is the formula that will give you only the sheet name when you use it in any cell in that sheet:

The above formula will give us the sheet name in all scenarios. And the best part is that it would automatically update in case you change the sheet name or the file name.

Note that the CELL formula only works if you have saved the workbook. If you haven’t, then it would return a blank (as it has no idea what the workbook path is)

Wondering how this formula works? Let me explain!

The CELL formula gives us the whole workbook address along with the sheet name at the end.

One rule it would always follow is to have the sheet name after the square bracket (]).

Knowing this, we can find out the position of the square bracket, and then extract everything after it (which would be the sheet name)

And that’s exactly what this formula does.

The FIND part of the formula looks for ‘]’ and return it’s position (which is a number that denotes the number of characters after which the square bracket is found)

We use this position of the square bracket within the RIGHT formula to extract everything after that square bracket

One major issue with the CELL formula is that it’s dynamic. So if you use it in Sheet1 and then go to Sheet2, the formula in Sheet1 would update and show you the name as Sheet2 (despite the formula being on Sheet1). This happens as the CELL formula considers the cell in the active sheet and gives the name for that sheet, no matter where it is in the workbook. A workaround would be to hit the F9 key when you want to update the CELL formula in the active sheet. This will force a recalculation.

Alternative Formula to Get Sheet Name (MID formula)

There are many different ways to do the same thing in Excel. And in this case, there is another formula that works just as well.

Instead of the RIGHT function, it uses the MID function.

Below is the formula:

This formula works similarly to the RIGHT formula, where it first finds the position of the square bracket (using the FIND function).

It then uses the MID function to extract everything after the square bracket.

Fetching Sheet Name and Adding Text to it

If you’re building a dashboard, you may want to not just get the name of the worksheet, but also append a text before or after it.

For example, if you have a sheet name 2021, you may want to get the result as ‘Summary of 2021’ (and not just the sheet name).

This can easily be done by combining the formula we saw above with the text we want before it using the ampersand operator.

Below is the formula that will add the text ‘Summary of ‘ before the sheet name:

The ampersand operator (&) simply combines the text before the formula with the result of the formula. You can also use the CONCAT or CONCATENATE function instead of an ampersand.

Similarly, if you want to add any text after the formula, you can use the same ampersand logic (i.e., have the ampersand after the formula followed by the text that you want to append).

So these are two simple formulas that you can use to get the sheet name in Excel.

I hope you found this tutorial useful.

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What Excel formula returns the sheet name?

I have searched the excel function documentation and general MSDN search but have been unable to find a way to return the sheet name without VBA.

Is there a way to get the sheet name in an excel formula without needing to resort to VBA?

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Not very good with excel, but I found these here

and A1 can be any non-error cell in the sheet.
For the full path and name of the sheet, use

Here’s a reasonably short one that has a couple added benefits:

Does a reverse lookup (most other answers go wrong direction) by using the often ignored REPT function.

A1 seems like a poor choice as there’s a considerably higher chance it errors compared to. $FZZ$999999 .

Don’t forget to absolute. Copying and pasting some of the other examples could error due to referential changes.

The ? is intentional as that shouldn’t be in the file path.

The below will isolate the sheet name:

For recent versions of Excel, the formula syntax is:

None of the formulas given in other answers supports the case if there is character ] in filepath.

The formula below is more complex, but it can handle such cases properly:

I had a module already open so I made a custom function:

Had a square bracket ‘]’ in the file name, so needed to modify the above formula as per the following to find the last occurrence of the square bracket. Verified that this works for 0,1 or more square brackets in the file name / path.

1. Replaces all square brackets using the substitute function, then compares the length of the result with the length of the file name to identify the number of square brackets in the file name.
2. Uses the number of occurrences of square brackets to substitute the last square bracket with 3 sequential square brackets ‘]]]’
3. Uses the Find function to identify the location of the 3 square brackets in the string
4. Subtracts the location of the 3 square brackets from the length of the full path
5. Uses the result to get the right most characters (being the sheet name)

Previous comment above about saving the workbook first is also a key, as you’ll otherwise receive the #Value! result.

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In this post, you’ll learn about with a detailed explanation of how to get sheet name in Microsoft Excel using VBA.

Sheet names are stored in the Name property of the Sheets or Worksheets object.  The Sheet Name is the “tab” name that’s visible at the bottom of Excel.

Get ActiveSheet Name

To display the ActiveSheet name in a message box, use the below code snippet

Get Sheet Name by index Number

To display the worksheet name in a message box by its index number:

To display the name of the last worksheet in the workbook:

MsgBox Sheets(Sheets.Count).Name

Get Sheet Name by Code Name

In the VBA Editor, there is an option to change the “code name” of a Sheet. The code name is not visible to the Excel user and can only be seen in the VBA Editor:

The VBA code name:

To get the Sheet name in a MsgBox using the VBA Code name:

Check if Sheet Name Exists

This is used to check whether the sheet name exists already.

Enter the following code in the module and click run

Code:

Function WorksheetExists2(WorksheetName As String, Optional wb As Workbook) As Boolean

    If wb Is Nothing Then Set wb = ThisWorkbook

    With wb

        On Error Resume Next

        WorksheetExists2 = (.Sheets(WorksheetName).Name = WorksheetName)

        On Error GoTo 0

    End With

End Function

Sub FindSheet()

If WorksheetExists2("Sheet1") Then

    MsgBox "Sheet1 is in this workbook"

Else

    MsgBox "Oops: Sheet does not exist"

End If

End Sub