Macro To Loop Through Worksheets To Match Value And Return All Results

[rameezl17]

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to build a macro that takes the value in Sheet name - "Report" Cell "A2" (this is going to be a employees name), looks through all the sheets in my workbook and returns each project name that their name is in one of the sheets going down from Cell "A5". So If their name appears 3 times within all the tabs in my workbook I want it to return the project name which will be in Cell E20 in all the other tabs.

So if I were to do this within excel and NOT VBA it would look like this -
=INDEX('1'!E20:E24,MATCH('Report'!A2,'1'!$G$20:$G$24))

The '1' is the name of the tab that it has the info i need to match to. (All the worksheets are numbered 1,2,3,4,5, and will continue growing as more projects come in)
I need the above formula to loop through all workbooks and once it finds a match to post the result in cell A5 and keep going down from there for each match that it finds

Thank you for your help!

 

[rameezl17]

Hmm not returning anything

is it only gonna paste if it finds more than or equal to 3?

 

[rameezl17]

So i changed flipped the sign to less than and got it, however it only pastes the first return rather than all of them

 

[DataBlake]

Hmm not returning anything

odd it worked for me
i made a sheet named "Report" and put "Paul" into cell A2
I then made 5 blank sheets
i then made 5 sheets with a 9x9 grid of names that differed
I made it so that '1' '2' and '5' contained "Paul" 3 times or more

i posted the cells i had in E20 on those 3 sheets into cells A5-A8
if you're not getting any error messages either please double check the following:

-Your sheet is named "Report"
-The name value is A2 and the cell were searching for are exact matches (i expect this to be the problem)
-There are no blank rows/columns

 

[DataBlake]

So i changed flipped the sign to less than and got it, however it only pastes the first return rather than all of them

that would mean the value in cell A2 appears in one sheet less than 3 times

 

[rameezl17]

Nevermind it works! You are awesome! Thank you!

 

[DataBlake]

glad i could help.

 

[rameezl17]

I have some more questions to add onto this if you are willing to help!?

 

[DataBlake]

I have some more questions to add onto this if you are willing to help!?

absolutely

 

[rameezl17]

So on those numbered tabs next to column E, i have project roles in cells F20:F24... I tried adjusting that line you sent with

Sheets("Report").Cells(5 + p, 1).Value = Sheets(i).Range("E20").Value

to this:

Sheets("Report").Cells(5 + p, 1).Value = Sheets(i).Range("F20:F24").Value

Howeverit only returns the value in F20.

In this numbered tabs:

F20 = Project Lead
F21 = Project Support
F22 = Project Support2
F23 = Project Support3
F24 = Project Support4

 

[DataBlake]

Sheets("Report").Cells(5 + p, 1).Value = Sheets(i).Range("F20:F24").Value

Howeverit only returns the value in F20.

thats because Cells() by itself refers to a single cell location
while range() can refer to multiple cells

to fix this you would want to define a range on the report sheet with a starting cell and an ending cell just like you did for sheets(i)

Sheets("Report").Range(Cells(5 + p, 1), Cells(10 + p, 1)).Value = Sheets(i).Range("F20:F24").Value
p = p + 5

the reason we want to +5 our counter is because we don't want our range for multiple matches to overlap
this is untested but should work