How to: Programmatically List All Worksheets in a Workbook

The Workbook class provides a Worksheets object. This object contains a collection of all the Worksheet objects in the workbook.

Applies to: The information in this topic applies to document-level projects and application-level projects for Excel 2013 and Excel 2010. For more information, see Features Available by Office Application and Project Type.

To list all existing worksheets in a workbook in a document-level customization

  • Iterate through the Worksheets collection and send the name of each sheet to a cell offset from a NamedRange control.

    Private Sub ListSheets()
        Dim index As Integer = 0
    
        Dim NamedRange1 As Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.NamedRange = _
            Globals.Sheet1.Controls.AddNamedRange( _
            Globals.Sheet1.Range("A1"), "NamedRange1")
    
        For Each displayWorksheet As Excel.Worksheet In Globals.ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
            NamedRange1.Offset(index, 0).Value2 = displayWorksheet.Name
            index += 1
        Next displayWorksheet
    End Sub
    
    private void ListSheets()
    {
        int index = 0;
    
        Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.NamedRange NamedRange1 =
            Globals.Sheet1.Controls.AddNamedRange(
            Globals.Sheet1.Range["A1"], "NamedRange1");
    
        foreach (Excel.Worksheet displayWorksheet in Globals.ThisWorkbook.Worksheets)
        {
            NamedRange1.Offset[index, 0].Value2 = displayWorksheet.Name;
            index++;
        }
    }
    

To list all existing worksheets in a workbook in an application-level add-in

  • Iterate through the Worksheets collection and send the name of each sheet to a cell offset from a Range object.

    Private Sub ListSheets()
        Dim index As Integer = 0
    
        Dim rng As Excel.Range = Me.Application.Range("A1")
    
        For Each displayWorksheet As Excel.Worksheet In Me.Application.Worksheets
            rng.Offset(index, 0).Value2 = displayWorksheet.Name
            index += 1
        Next displayWorksheet
    End Sub
    
    private void ListSheets()
    {
        int index = 0;
    
        Excel.Range rng = this.Application.get_Range("A1");
    
        foreach (Excel.Worksheet displayWorksheet in this.Application.Worksheets)
        {
            rng.get_Offset(index, 0).Value2 = displayWorksheet.Name;
            index++;
        }
    }
    

See Also

Tasks

How to: Programmatically Add New Worksheets to Workbooks

How to: Programmatically Move Worksheets Within Workbooks

Concepts

Working with Worksheets

Global Access to Objects in Office Projects