Question

Okay, so I’ve written a Macro that works fine when launched from the Workbook which I coded it in. However, I need the Macro to be able to work across various Workbooks.

I’ve moved the Macro to the hidden “personal” workbook, but, now when the code references “ThisWorkBook”, well, yeah, it points to the personal workbook.

I had thought of just creating a workbook variable and pointing to the address/name of the workbook… but this varies (the workbook is generated by a system, and the name of the workbook is dependant on the time/date generated).

For reference, I want to put a button on the toolbar in Excel, and when the user clicks it, it runs this Macro. Is there, perhaps, a way to get the name of the Workbook that calls the Macro?

Thanks,
Sam.

Answer 1

If there’s a naming convention in workbook A (the data workbook) , you can do the following changes
to identify workbook A

Dim wbA As Workbook 'workbook A ( the data workbook) 
Dim wb As Workbook 

For Each wb In Workbooks 'loop through all opened workbooks, matching the name 
    If InStr(wb.Name, "ABC") > 0 Then 
        Set wbA = wb
        Exit For
    End If
Next wb

then replace the “ThisWorkBook” by wbA