Comments on: Sheet Name

By: Tushar Mehta

Tushar Mehta — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:12:00 +0000

Vinod,

Add a cell reference (the 2nd parameter to the CELL function).

By: Vinod Triedi

Vinod Triedi — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:45:00 +0000

I am using formula for Filename in one cell. When another file is opened, the filename of this new file gets updated in the earlier file. For example File named "123.xlsx" is open, the cell A1 shows "123?. When the file named "xyz.xlsx" is opened, cell A1 in file 123.xlsx shows "xyz"
How to fix this.
Thanks in advance

By: Eli

Eli — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:43:00 +0000

THANKS !!!

adding in the reference to A1 (ie CELL(“filename”,A1) rather than simply CELL(“filename”) did the trick for me !!

By: David Chichester-Bredin

David Chichester-Bredin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:06:00 +0000

excel 2002

I want to use the name of the ACTIVEworksheet into the chart label or textbook.
I already can get the worksheet name into a cell.

NOTE. I name each tab by date and then want this date on the chart which I print out.

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:17:00 +0000

Derek: You need VBA for that. See
http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2005/01/04/naming-a-sheet-based-on-a-cell/

By: Derek S

Derek S — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:33:00 +0000

This is all facinating, but I was looking for something the other way round.

How do I set a worksheet name to the value of a Cell.

ie I have a cell H1 containing
"January 2008?
and I want sheet1 to be labelled this programmatically
which would save me manually changing all 7 worksheets every month

By: Scott Gall

Scott Gall — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:20:00 +0000

This will work in a cell to get the sheetname of a refference (and does not require the file to be saved) Note however you cannot use it on the sheet you are getting the name of… Excel automatically gives local address and then doesn’t have the sheetname..

=MID((CELL(“Address”,’Sheet You Want The Name of’!$A$1)),(FIND(“]”,CELL(“Address”,Sheet You Want The Name of’!$A$1),1)+1),(FIND(“!”,CELL(“Address”,’Sheet You Want The Name of’!$A$1),2)-1)-(FIND(“]”,CELL(“Address”,’Sheet You Want The Name of!$A$1),1)+1))

Still Requires Recalculation.

Hope this helps someone…

By: Matt Vidas

Matt Vidas — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:03:00 +0000

David,

Are you sure you have a cell reference after "filename"? eg. CELL("filename") vs. CELL("filename",A1) -- with the cell anchor you shouldn't have to recalculate in order to see it.

Matt

By: David

David — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:58:00 +0000

re "put sheet name into a cell" (Excel XP)

ie. =RIGHT(CELL("filename",A1),LEN(CELL("filename",A1))-FIND("]",CELL("filename",A1))) and similar.

The above does not appear to work well when there are multiple sheets in a workbook. eg. I use the formula to display the sheetname on about 12 sheets. Unfortunately, at any one point in time, all the same sheetname is displayed on all sheets. The formula appears to display the sheetname of the sheet with the most recently "recalculated" cell value.

Simply switching from one sheet the next does not change the sheetname displayed. The displayed name only changes to the currently open sheet if:

+ Press F9 to recalculate a value (/values) on the 'active' worksheet
+ or say enter data or a formula and press enter; ie. this appears to make the "open" sheet the "active" sheet.

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:19:00 +0000

I am working in the same array formulas and have another question. I have a Conditional Sum formula and need one of my conditions to say this: "If C2:C17 is not blank (it will contain a number), add the numbers." What I need to know is how to express the condition "not blank."

Thanks very much!
Robin