- #How to combine excel workbooks into one file code
- #How to combine excel workbooks into one file series
The ninth layer is instructing Excel to close the workbook without saving changes. Workbooks(Filename).Close SaveChanges:=False The eight layer is instructing Excel to select the next sheet if there are multiple worksheets in a workbook. This is equivalent to the move or copy function. The seventh layer is now instructing excel to copy the sheet to the new master workbook. From there we will deduct five characters that represent the extension name and we will be left with the file name without its extension. Instead of specifying the number of characters, we have replaced it with Length function which will calculate the length of the file name.
The left function will extract number of characters in the file name beginning with the left most character and continue till the number of characters specified. Therefore we are using the Left function to select only the file name without its extension. Please note that if we do not use the Left function here, then the sheet names will be saved with the file name but will also contain “.xlsx” extension name at the end because the file names are stored with their relevant file extensions. It uses the Left Function to extract the filename. The sixth layer is instructing Excel to rename the Active sheets with their corresponding file name.
#How to combine excel workbooks into one file code
The fifth layer is instructing Excel to select all the worksheets of the Workbook that is opened in previous code layer.ĪctiveSheet.Name = Left(Filename, Len(Filename) – 5) The fourth layer is instructing Excel to open all Workbooks in the path with read only instructions. Workbooks.Open Filename:=Path & Filename, ReadOnly:=True We want the same task to be repeated till all the files in the workbook have successfully opened, sheet name replaced and then moved to the master workbook. We need this in our example as we will now instruct excel to open the workbooks, rename them and then to move to our master workbook.
#How to combine excel workbooks into one file series
This means that we are instructing excel to perform a specific series of tasks and continue to perform it until the instruction given are no longer fulfilled. It is a series of instructions to excel to perform a task based on a criteria and then it is closed with a “Loop” instruction. The third layer is the start of “Do While” instruction. The second layer is instructing Excel to select all the files in the path name selected with the. Important part to note is that in the end of the path name, there should always be a back slash before the closing double quotation mark. In our example, we had the files saved in a separate folder and we searched for the path name in the drop down option of that specific folder. This can be either in the same workbook or stored in an external workbook file. The first layer in the code is the instruction to Excel to locate the path of the file that we want to further work on. The VBA code shown above is further explained below for the users to understand how the VBA Syntax works to combine workbooks in a single workbook.
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