Microsoft KB Archive/126313

= Macro Doesn't Function on Multiple Sheets in Group Mode =

Article ID: 126313

Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006

-

APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 5.0 Standard Edition

-



This article was previously published under Q126313





SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Excel, when you use a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications procedure to perform an action while worksheets are selected in group mode, the action performed may only be performed on one of the worksheets instead of on every worksheet in the selection.

This behavior may also occur if you use a Visual Basic Standard or Professional Edition procedure to perform an action while worksheets are selected in group mode in Microsoft Excel.

For example, if you use a Visual Basic procedure to select multiple worksheets, and you check spelling in the selected worksheets, if you use the Change All button to change a word that is found on all of the selected worksheets, the word is only changed on the active worksheet.



CAUSE
This behavior occurs because some of the Visual Basic commands in Microsoft Excel perform an action on one worksheet at a time, even if the equivalent menu command performs the action on all selected sheets.



WORKAROUND
Microsoft provides programming examples for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied. This includes, but is not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This article assumes that you are familiar with the programming language that is being demonstrated and with the tools that are used to create and to debug procedures. Microsoft support engineers can help explain the functionality of a particular procedure, but they will not modify these examples to provide added functionality or construct procedures to meet your specific requirements. To work around this behavior, you must loop through each sheet in the selection individually in your procedure or script to perform the action as in the following examples. (Note that the following examples use the Spelling command to demonstrate the workaround. These examples can be modified to work with other commands.)

Sample Visual Basic Procedure
Sub SpellCheck

' Dimension variable x as Object type Dim x as Object ' Group select Sheet1, Sheet2, and Sheet3 worksheets. ' Note that there are other methods for selecting multiple sheets. Sheets(Array("sheet1", "sheet2", "sheet3")).Select

' Perform spell check on each selected sheet. ' Note that the Change All button will only change ' words on one worksheet, but the spell checker dialog ' will appear once for each sheet selected. For Each x In ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets x.CheckSpelling CustomDictionary:="CUSTOM.DIC", _ IgnoreUpperCase:=False, AlwaysSuggest:=True Next x

End Sub NOTE: The following example selects the worksheets, one at a time, that you want to spell check (Sheet1, Sheet2, and Sheet3 in this example) in the active workbook in Microsoft Excel, and spell checks each sheet individually. Sub XL_SpellChk ' Dimension variables Dim xl As Object, n As Integer, wksheet ' Dimension wksheet variable as array with 3 elements ReDim wksheet(3) ' Assign worksheet you want to spell check ' as elements of wksheet array wksheet(1) = "sheet1" wksheet(2) = "sheet2" wksheet(3) = "sheet3"

' Activate Microsoft Excel and assign to variable xl     Set xl = GetObject(, "Excel.Application.5")

For n = 1 To 3 ' Display Spell Checker dialog, once for each sheetname in array xl.Sheets(wksheet(n)).CheckSpelling "CUSTOM.DIC", False, True Next n

Set xl = Nothing End Sub



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

