Excel-VBA : Prevent Adding New Worksheet

Many a times you need a scenario where you dont want user to add new worksheets in you Excel work book.

Its quite easy to do.

Steps:

• Go to VBA Editor
• Expand your VBA Project
• Double Click ThisWorkBook

Select ThisWorkBook

• Now select the “Workbook” from the first drop down on the right

select workbook

• Select the NewSheet from the second drop down on the right

Select NewSheet

• Now you will see the function Private Sub Workbook_NewSheet(ByVal Sh As Object).

WorkBook_NewSheet function

• Add the following code in the function.

Application.DisplayAlerts = False

ActiveSheet.Delete

MsgBox “Sorry, Adding new Sheet is not allowed”

code

And thats it you are done. Lets test our program.

Go to excel and try adding a new worksheet.

No New WorkSheet