How To Delete Worksheet Based On Cell Value In Excel ?

Excel is an effective tool for organising and analysing data, and you might occasionally need to eliminate particular worksheets from your workbook based on predetermined criteria. This tutorial will show you how to automatically delete worksheets that match certain cell value criteria.

It can take a while to manually delete worksheets, especially when working with large workbooks that contain a lot of sheets. To erase worksheets depending on particular cell values, we can make use of the VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) programming language in Excel.

Delete Worksheet Based On Cell Value

Here, we will first create a VBA and then use it to complete the task. So let us see a simple process to know how you can delete worksheets based on cell values in Excel.

Step 1

Consider any Excel workbook that has multiple worksheets.

First, right?click on any sheet name and select "View Code" to open the VBA application. Then click on Insert, select Module, and copy the below code into the text box.

Right click > View code > Insert > Module > Copy.

Code

Sub deletesheetbycell()
   Dim shName As String
   Dim xName As String
   Dim xWs As Worksheet
   Dim cnt As Integer
   shName = Application.InputBox("Input the text to delete the sheets based on:", "Delete based value", _
                                    "", , , , , 2)
   Application.DisplayAlerts = False
   cnt = 0
   For Each xWs In ThisWorkbook.Sheets
      If xWs.Range("A1").Value = shName Then
         xWs.delete
         cnt = cnt + 1
      End If
   Next xWs
   Application.DisplayAlerts = True
   MsgBox "Have deleted" & cnt & "worksheets", vbInformation, "Delete based value"
End Sub

Step 2

Now save the sheet as a macro?enabled template and click F5 to run the module. Then enter the input text in the prompt and click OK to complete the task. You will see a confirmation prompt.

Save > F5 > Input text > Ok.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have used a simple example to demonstrate how you can delete worksheets based on cell values in Excel to highlight a particular set of data.