Comments on: Run a Macro When Opening a Workbook

By: john

john — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:00:14 +0000

If you just put the following line before your for loop you should be fine:

sheets(“sheet1″).select

If you want to return to the original sheet you were on when you ran the macro, that will require additional code.

Good luck.

By: Rahil

Rahil — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:29:35 +0000

Hi All & EH
I have a table with colums Serial number, other colum feilds and total, for which I usually sort the rows according to their ascending order or Descending order, Doing which it changes the serial number of the rows in first column,

To avoid this serial number issue I have written a macro using ‘For’ loop, and had assign short cut key of combination with Ctrl+Key
and it work fine for sheet1.

Sub Mymacro()
For x = 1 To 15
Cells((x + 1), 1) = x
Next x
End Sub

But the issue is; when I am in sheet2 and press the shortcut key,
The macro runs in the current sheet2 and prints the same output in sheet2 also,

So therefore, can anybody help me out how to restrict the macro for a perticular sheet1 only, though I run it from anysheet, that has to work for perticular sheet only.

& I am really great thankful to all the Commentators who gives real informative information …

By: john

john — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:03:17 +0000

Yes, you can put any actions you want to perform inside the auto-open macro to get your program started.

By: Billy Gee

Billy Gee — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:16:31 +0000

Very clear and concise explanation. I imagine you could run other procedures where you put the msgbox in your example, if you had to perform several tasks upon opening.

By: Affordable Housing

Affordable Housing — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:47:07 +0000

I would like to place a button in an Excel spreadsheet that will run a macro. I already know how to create a macro, and I intend to use the same workbook over & over each month. I also need to know more about storing macro’s in the worksheet. This macro will go to a specific directory, open a specific file, manipulate, copy & paste that file into this spreadsheet, update the pivot table and populate other sheets throughout the entire workbook. I would like to place buttons on all the worksheets that contain data, around 12 sheets. These sheets then populate 3 reports that are due the first week of the month.