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Drop Down Menu Containing Worksheet Names

hi all,

i'd love it if someone could show off their excel prowess on this one.

what i'm trying to do is have a workbook with multiple "common"
worksheets and one main worksheet. on the main worksheet i want to
have a drop-down menu where you select which common worksheet you want
to pull data from to populate the main worksheet.

the common worksheets will always be the exact same structure and will
contain a weeks worth of data. every week i want to "move and copy" a
common worksheet so that i have one worksheet for evey week. i don't
want to have to make a million worksheets at the inception of the
workbook.

what i think will be the tricky part is having the drop-down menu
automatically update so at any point in time i would be able to select
any common worksheet available.

ready to learn...

-jarrad




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We have checked to make sure that the workbook and worksheet:
1. Are not protected
2. That there are no hidden worksheets
3. That there are not worksheets that exist with the same name
4. That not all the worksheets are selected

There are only two worksheets in this workbook.

Any ideas of why we are unable to make a copy of this worksheet within the same workbook or to another workbook?


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Sheet 1 is the master sheet "Team Stats". There will be an undetermined number of individual worksheets to accomodate new staff.

Each worksheet will be identical, using columns A-I with row 1 having the headings:

Date, Name, Reference, Value, Price, Age, Purchased?, Destination, Add. Products (the last 3 columns will have a drop-down list which will be used to enter data into the cell).

There will be a varying number of rows in each of the individual sheets.

If possible I would like the macro to run every time data is entered into one of the individual worksheets. If this is not then it would be fien to update every time the workbook is opened.

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I have set up an auto-execute macro which automatically sets the zoom factor to best fit, for several of the worksheets, and this works fine.
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Anyone know how to do this ?


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The solution directly above provides exactly what I am looking for
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