VBA-Excel: Create worksheets with Names in Specific Format/Pattern.

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Many times we find ourselves in a situation where we want to allow users to add the new worksheets and the sheet name must follow some specific format or pattern.

Recently I have received the same request from one our reader. This made me realize that it's a very common problem so I wrote this article to solve such problems.

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I am putting the code here as well so that you can understand it better and modify it as per your needs.

Example:

Worksheet Name format: FY_xxxx-xx (i.e FY_2013-14)

Complete Code:

Sub sumit()
Dim mainWorkBook As Workbook
Set mainWorkBook = ActiveWorkbook
myValue = InputBox("Enter Sheet name:")
Set objRegExp = CreateObject("vbscript.regexp")
objRegExp.Global = True
objRegExp.Pattern = "FY_\d{4}-\d{2}$"
Set regExpMatches = objRegExp.Execute(myValue)
If regExpMatches.Count = 1 Then
	mainWorkBook.Worksheets.Add().Name = myValue
	MsgBox ("New Work Sheet with name " & myValue & " is created")
Else
	MsgBox ("Please Enter the Sheet name in FY_xxxx_xx format")
End If
End Sub

Screen Shots:

Invalid Sheet Name:

Invalid sheet name

Valid Sheet Name:

Thanks Venkat for suggesting this post. Looking for more.

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