How to determine quickly which sheets have macros in Excel Workbook?

calendar_today Asked Apr 13, 2012
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Question posted 2012 · +7 upvotes

If an Excel Workbook has many sheets and some of them have macros inside, the only way I have found to determine which sheets have macro is by clicking each of them in Project Explorer (Ctrl+R in VBA).

Is there any other way to do this?

Accepted answer +10 upvotes

I answered a question recently in MSDN and ultimately wrote a blog post on it.

Topic: Check if an Excel File has a Macro

Link: http://www.siddharthrout.com/2012/04/12/check-if-an-excel-file-has-a-macro/

You can then use .VBComponents.Item(i).Name with .VBComponents.Item(i).Type to check which “Sheets” have “macros“.

EDIT

Technically speaking every macro is a piece of code but it’s not necessary that every piece of code is a macro. So if you are just checking for macros then see the 1st part of the blog post and if you are checking for any code then look at the 2nd part of the blog post.

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  • VBComponents.Item — Allow users to add items to an unbound combo box
  • VBComponents.Item — Create a Sendable Item for a Specific Account Based on the Current Folder (Outlook)
  • Workbook — Workbooks and Worksheets
  • Workbook — Add a Table of Contents to a Workbook

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