Determining the last row actually containing information in an Excel worksheet can be an annoying task, if you are relying on the Excel API to do the trick for you. Especially when you are not exatcly in control over the handed files you are dealing with and people are allowed to enter information anywhere it is not as easy as it should be.

Source Code automating Excel search function

Below function is determining the last row containing data in provided worksheet using the Excel search function.
This approach works only, if no cells in given sheet are merged.
Therefore merged cells are removed from a handed workbook before determining its last row containing data.

Last Updated: 19 August 2015

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This function copies used range of handed worksheet and replaces it with values only.

Source Code

' @Author - Alexander Bolte
' @ChangeDate - 2014-10-09
' @Description - Copy / Pasting contents of handed Worksheets UsedRange
' as values into the same range.
' @Param trg - a Worksheet object holding data.
' @Remarks -
' UsedRange of worksheet will be overwritten by itself pasting only values and nothing else.
' Formulas will be lost.
Public Function copyPasteWorksheetValues(ByRef trg As Worksheet)
    trg.UsedRange.Copy
    trg.UsedRange.PasteSpecial xlPasteValues
End Function

Last Updated: 25 July 2015

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Actually you can list all worksheet names in a workbook using the object path Workbook.Worksheets(index).Name.

I needed to have the names as strings in a VBA.Collection, so I developed a little function collecting the names.

' @Author - Alexander Bolte
' @Change Date - 26.12.2013
' @Description - Creates a list of all sheet names in given workbook.
' @Param wrk - Excel workbook the sheet name collection should be created from.
' @Returns - VBA.Collection holding all sheet names from given Microsoft Excel workbook.
Public Function getSheetNamesFromWorkbook(ByRef wrk As Workbook) As VBA.Collection
    Dim i As Integer
    Dim sheetNames As New VBA.Collection
    
    On Error GoTo errHandle:
    
    For i = 1 To wrk.Worksheets.Count
        sheetNames.Add wrk.Worksheets(i).Name
    Next i
    
errHandle:
    If Err.Number <> 0 Then
        Err.Clear
    End If
    
    Set getSheetNamesFromWorkbook = sheetNames
End Function

Last Updated: 07 June 2014

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