I have a weekly status spreadsheet. Each week, I create a new sheet
with Monday's date on it. Then put in the necessary fields and
formatting. I'm writing a macro to do this (talk about lazy!). If I
have a sheet named "Mar 17", how can I use that to create a sheet
named "Mar 24". I already copied the sheet name into a cell, and XL
recognized it as a date, so I could just copy the name, paste it to a
cell, add 7, then use that as the name for the new sheet. But is there
a more direct way of doing this?
Thanks in advance.

Dave
One way:
Sub TestDates()
Dim NewShtName As String
NewShtName = Format(CDate(ActiveSheet.Name) + 7, "mmm dd")
Worksheets.Add(After:=Sheets(Sheets.Count)).Name = NewShtName
End Sub
HTH Otto
"davegb" wrote in message
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I have a weekly status spreadsheet. Each week, I create a new sheet
with Monday's date on it. Then put in the necessary fields and
formatting. I'm writing a macro to do this (talk about lazy!). If I
have a sheet named "Mar 17", how can I use that to create a sheet
named "Mar 24". I already copied the sheet name into a cell, and XL
recognized it as a date, so I could just copy the name, paste it to a
cell, add 7, then use that as the name for the new sheet. But is there
a more direct way of doing this?
Thanks in advance.

On Mar 24, 3:58*pm, davegb wrote:
I have a weekly status spreadsheet. Each week, I create a new sheet
with Monday's date on it. Then put in the necessary fields and
formatting. I'm writing a macro to do this (talk about lazy!). If I
have a sheet named "Mar 17", how can I use that to create a sheet
named "Mar 24". I already copied the sheet name into a cell, and XL
recognized it as a date, so I could just copy the name, paste it to a
cell, add 7, then use that as the name for the new sheet. But is there
a more direct way of doing this?
Thanks in advance.

Run this macro with the sheet activated that you want to add 7 days
to

Sub NewSheet()
Dim i As Variant
Dim idate As Date
idate = ActiveSheet.Name
i = idate + 7
Sheets.Add
ActiveSheet.Name = Format(i, "mmm dd")
End Sub

On Mar 24, 3:13*pm, "Otto Moehrbach"
wrote:
Dave
One way:
Sub TestDates()
* * * Dim NewShtName As String
* * * NewShtName = Format(CDate(ActiveSheet.Name) + 7, "mmm dd")
* * * Worksheets.Add(After:=Sheets(Sheets.Count)).Name = NewShtName
End Sub
HTH *Otto"davegb" wrote in message

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I have a weekly status spreadsheet. Each week, I create a new sheet
with Monday's date on it. Then put in the necessary fields and
formatting. I'm writing a macro to do this (talk about lazy!). If I
have a sheet named "Mar 17", how can I use that to create a sheet
named "Mar 24". I already copied the sheet name into a cell, and XL
recognized it as a date, so I could just copy the name, paste it to a
cell, add 7, then use that as the name for the new sheet. But is there
a more direct way of doing this?
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Thanks, that's exactly the number of ways I needed.

On Mar 24, 3:32*pm, GTVT06 wrote:
On Mar 24, 3:58*pm, davegb wrote:

I have a weekly status spreadsheet. Each week, I create a new sheet
with Monday's date on it. Then put in the necessary fields and
formatting. I'm writing a macro to do this (talk about lazy!). If I
have a sheet named "Mar 17", how can I use that to create a sheet
named "Mar 24". I already copied the sheet name into a cell, and XL
recognized it as a date, so I could just copy the name, paste it to a
cell, add 7, then use that as the name for the new sheet. But is there
a more direct way of doing this?
Thanks in advance.

Run this macro with the sheet activated that you want to add 7 days
to

Sub NewSheet()
Dim i As Variant
Dim idate As Date
idate = ActiveSheet.Name
i = idate + 7
Sheets.Add
ActiveSheet.Name = Format(i, "mmm dd")
End Sub

Thanks, very clever!

On Mar 24, 4:45*pm, davegb wrote:
On Mar 24, 3:32*pm, GTVT06 wrote:





On Mar 24, 3:58*pm, davegb wrote:

I have a weekly status spreadsheet. Each week, I create a new sheet
with Monday's date on it. Then put in the necessary fields and
formatting. I'm writing a macro to do this (talk about lazy!). If I
have a sheet named "Mar 17", how can I use that to create a sheet
named "Mar 24". I already copied the sheet name into a cell, and XL
recognized it as a date, so I could just copy the name, paste it to a
cell, add 7, then use that as the name for the new sheet. But is there
a more direct way of doing this?
Thanks in advance.

Run this macro with the sheet activated that you want to add 7 days
to

Sub NewSheet()
Dim i As Variant
Dim idate As Date
idate = ActiveSheet.Name
i = idate + 7
Sheets.Add
ActiveSheet.Name = Format(i, "mmm dd")
End Sub

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your welcome

I recommand yyyymmdd format. That way the order of the files is sorted
by date when you read the XL files from a folder using Explorer.