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VBA Advanced Lesson 4 Introduction To Collections

This document introduces collections in Excel VBA which allow looping through groups of objects. It lists some common collections like Worksheets, ChartObjects, and Shapes. It provides examples that loop through the Worksheets collection to display names and through the ChartObjects collection to display chart names. Collections are useful for performing the same actions on multiple objects like worksheets or charts.

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VBA Advanced Lesson 4 Introduction To Collections

This document introduces collections in Excel VBA which allow looping through groups of objects. It lists some common collections like Worksheets, ChartObjects, and Shapes. It provides examples that loop through the Worksheets collection to display names and through the ChartObjects collection to display chart names. Collections are useful for performing the same actions on multiple objects like worksheets or charts.

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VBA Advanced Lesson 4 Introduction to Collections

Collection in Excel VBA helps to loop through the group of items:

In This Section:

 Introduction to Collections?

 Collections in Excel VBA

 Examples Macro File On Collections

Introduction to Collections in Excel VBA?

Collection is an object contains group of objects having similar characteristics (with same

properties and methods). For example,if you want to loop through all worksheets in a

workbook, you can refer worksheets collection of the workbook and do whatever you want

to do with that particular worksheet.

Collections in Excel VBA

Below are the most frequently used Collections in the Excel VBA:

Collections Use

AddIns Collection We can loop through the installed and available add-in in your
Excel. You can use it for finding all available add-ins

We can loop through the all the charts in a Worksheet or


workbook. You can use it for performing some thing with all
ChartObjects Collection
or some of the available Charts in the Workbook or
Worksheet

Charts Collection It is similar to the above collection

We can loop through the all comments in the workbook and


Comments Collection
we can change any properties of all or some comments

We can loop through the Horizontal page breaks and change


HPageBreaks Collection
the settings

We can loop through the all hyperlinks in the workbook and


Hyperlinks Collection
change the properties

Names Collection We can loop through All names and change the properties

We can loop through all ActiveX controls and change the


OLEObjects Collection
properties

We can loop through the all pivot caches in the workbook and
PivotCaches Collection
change the properties

We can loop through all the pivot tables and change the
PivotTables Collection
formats and other properties

Range Collection We can loop through all ranges

We can loop through shapes including chart in workbook and


Shapes Collection
change the properties

Sheets Collection We can loop through all sheets in the workbbok

Windows Collection We can loop through all windows

We can loop through available or opened workbook and


Workbooks Collection
access their data or change its properties

We can loop through all worksheets in the workbook and


Worksheets Collection
change its properties

Examples Macro File On Collections


Example 1: This code will loop through the Worksheets in a Workbook and display the names of
the worksheets

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()


Dim sh
For Each sh In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
MsgBox sh.Name
Next
End Sub

Example 2: This code will loop through the Chart objects in a Worksheet and display the names
of the Chart Objects

Private Sub CommandButton2_Click()


Dim cht
For Each cht In ActiveSheet.ChartObjects
MsgBox cht.Name
Next
End Sub

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