I find myself often using a number of worksheets in a workbook and navigating through them is cumbersome. Googling for help, I found a a post on the office blogs where a simple macro would automagically create a table of contents (TOC) of all worksheets with hyperlink shortcuts.

I’ve slightly improved the version, the result:

• the macro still creates a TOC 😉
• you can add worksheets, run the macro again and it will preserve whatever you have in column B (e.g. a description)
• you can quickly jump back to your TOC with CTRL-G gg. The macro adds a shortcut to the TOC sheet, by naming cell A1 “gg”.

Caveat: if you change the order of the tabs and run the macro again, you’ll have to change the order of column B manually.

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Sub swaCreateTOC() 

    Dim wbBook As Workbook
    Dim wsActive As Worksheet
    Dim wsSheet As Worksheet 

    Dim lnRow As Long
    Dim lnPages As Long
    Dim lnCount As Long 

    Dim DataRange As Variant
    Dim Irow As Long
    Dim Icol As Integer
    Dim MyVar As Double 

    Set wbBook = ActiveWorkbook 

    With Application
        .DisplayAlerts = False
        .ScreenUpdating = False
    End With 

    'If the TOC sheet already exist delete it and add a new
    'worksheet. 

    On Error Resume Next
    With wbBook
        DataRange = .Worksheets("TOC").Range("B1:B10000").Value ' read all the values at once from the Excel grid, put into an array
        .Worksheets("TOC").Delete
        .Worksheets.Add Before:=.Worksheets(1)
    End With
    On Error GoTo 0 

    Set wsActive = wbBook.ActiveSheet
    With wsActive
        .Name = "TOC"
        With .Range("A1:B1")
            .Value = VBA.Array("Worksheet", "Content")
            .Font.Bold = True
        End With
    End With 

    If Not IsEmpty(DataRange) Then
        wsActive.Range("B1:B10000").Value = DataRange ' writes all the results back to the range at once
    End If 

    lnRow = 2
    lnCount = 1 

    'Iterate through the worksheets in the workbook and create
    'sheetnames, add hyperlink and count & write the running number
    'of pages to be printed for each sheet on the TOC sheet.
    For Each wsSheet In wbBook.Worksheets
        If wsSheet.Name <> wsActive.Name Then
            wsSheet.Activate
            With wsActive
                .Hyperlinks.Add .Cells(lnRow, 1), "", _
                SubAddress:="'" & wsSheet.Name & "'!A1", _
                TextToDisplay:=wsSheet.Name
                lnPages = wsSheet.PageSetup.Pages().Count
            End With
            lnRow = lnRow + 1
            lnCount = lnCount + 1
        End If
    Next wsSheet 

    wsActive.Activate
    wsActive.columns("A:B").EntireColumn.AutoFit
    ActiveWindow.DisplayGridlines = False
    ' now add the name "gg" to A1 of "TOC", so you can jump to it with CTRL-G gg
    wbBook.Names.Add "gg", RefersTo:=Sheets("TOC").Range("A1") 

    With Application
        .DisplayAlerts = True
        .ScreenUpdating = True
    End With 

Ende: 

End Sub