Thank you everyone for chiming in. My original arrangement is still the best
for my (admittedly limited) needs, so I will likely stick with it, but I'm
glad it stimulated some discussion and I've learned a few new things along
the way as well. And if my contribution helps someone else, so much the
better.

Long live newsgroups.

Petr



"Petr Danes" pí¹e v diskusním pøíspìvku
...
I recently started teaching in a software technical school, and my first
course was in advanced Excel. Naturally, I prepared a workbook with lots of
examples on various worksheets, but not until I started lecturing did I
realize that lots of sheets mean lots of scrolling left and right to locate
the correct sheet. I'd never needed a workbook with many sheets for any of
my own projects, nor those I had created for others. The course went fairly
well anyway, but I wanted a better way to navigate between sheets.

Part of the idea came from ASAP Utilities' function of creating a separate
index sheet with clickable hyperlinks for all sheets, and part of the code
from John Walkenbach's Excel Power Programming book. (My thanks to you
both.)

The clickable index sheet function is handy, but solves only half of the
problem - it quickly locates a sheet 'somewhere', but getting back to the
index sheet for another shot out into the myriad of sheets is still a
hassle. I decided a menu bar approach suited my needs better.

The code reads in all the sheet names and creates a dropdown menu of sheet
names. Originally it included a sort as well, but then I decided that I
prefer the menu in the same order as the sheets in the workbook, and my
naming and ordering scheme results in the names being in order anyway. The
sort is still there, just the call commented out, in case someone wants to
use it that way. There is no error checking and it takes no account of
hidden properties of sheets, since I don't use that, but it could be added
easily enough. The code is called from the Workbook_Open routine, so that
the menu is freshly rebuilt every time the workbook opens. Probably not
completely necessary, but the execution time is trivial and it makes for
ease of use. I initially added a call from the Workbook_NewSheet event,
but abandoned that since the code adds the default sheet name in use at
the instant of creation (Sheet1 or some such), which is not very useful,
since I always rename the sheet to something sensible, but by then the
sheet has already been added to the menu with default name. If there were
Workbook_SheetRename and Workbook_SheetDelete events, I would add calls
there, as well as the NewSheet event. That would make it completely
automatic and always current, but this works well enough. The first item
on the menu, before the sheet names is a refresh call, so I can keep the
menu up to date manually without having to close and re-open the workbook
or switch to the VBA editor.

There are two versions of the menu code, one creates a simple dropdown
menu list, suitable for up to approximately thirty sheets on my machine (a
bigger monitor would allow more), the second creates a two-stage list,
grouped by the first character in the sheet name. I name my sheets by
course day, so that "1.n xxxxx" is a sheet for the first day of the
course, "2.n xxxxx" for the second day and so on. "0.n xxxxx" sheets are
general sheets, not intended for any specific day. The second method
obviously better handles a very large number of sheets, at the cost of a
fraction of a second delay while the second tier unfolds. At the moment,
my code creates both versions. I'll have to use them for a while to see
which one I prefer for classroom use.

Pete

--
This e-mail address is fake, to keep spammers and their auto-harvesters
out
of my hair. If you want to get in touch personally, I am 'pdanes' and I
use
yahoo mail. But please use the newsgroup when possible, so that all may
benefit from the exchange of ideas.



Start code (watch for line wrap!)
================================================== ==

Option Explicit

Dim AEb As CommandBarButton
Dim AEp As CommandBarPopup
Dim AEp2 As CommandBarPopup
Dim SheetNames() As String

Sub SheetMenu()
Dim i&

ReDim SheetNames(1 To ActiveWorkbook.Sheets.Count)

' Fill array with sheet names
For i = 1 To UBound(SheetNames)
SheetNames(i) = Sheets(i).Name
Next i

' Sort the array in ascending order
' Not used in current implementation,
' but simply uncomment line below to order sheet names.
'BubbleSort SheetNames

' Build the sheet menus
MakeMenuItem ' simple menu
MakeMenuItem2 ' 2-tier menu

End Sub

Private Sub MakeMenuItem()
' Create the menu bar addition
Dim i&
With Application.CommandBars("Worksheet Menu Bar")
On Error Resume Next
.Controls("Sheets").Delete
On Error GoTo 0
Set AEp = .Controls.Add(msoControlPopup)
With AEp
.Caption = "Sheets"
Set AEb = .Controls.Add(msoControlButton)
With AEb
.Caption = "(...Refresh...)"
.OnAction = "GoToSheet"
.Parameter = "(...Refresh...)"
End With
For i = 1 To UBound(SheetNames)
Set AEb = .Controls.Add(msoControlButton)
With AEb
.Caption = SheetNames(i)
.OnAction = "GoToSheet"
.Parameter = SheetNames(i)
End With
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

Private Sub MakeMenuItem2()
' Create the menu bar addition
Dim i&, nmhld$

' Only one character is used for grouping
nmhld = "!"
With Application.CommandBars("Worksheet Menu Bar")
On Error Resume Next
.Controls("Sheets2").Delete
On Error GoTo 0
Set AEp = .Controls.Add(msoControlPopup)
With AEp
.Caption = "Sheets2"
Set AEb = .Controls.Add(msoControlButton)
With AEb
.Caption = "(...Refresh...)"
.OnAction = "GoToSheet"
.Parameter = "(...Refresh...)"
End With
For i = 1 To UBound(SheetNames)
If nmhld < Left$(SheetNames(i), Len(nmhld)) Then
Set AEp2 = .Controls.Add(msoControlPopup)
AEp2.Caption = Left$(SheetNames(i), InStr(SheetNames(i),
"."))
nmhld = Left$(SheetNames(i), Len(nmhld))
End If
With AEp2
Set AEb = .Controls.Add(msoControlButton)
With AEb
.Caption = SheetNames(i)
.OnAction = "GoToSheet"
.Parameter = SheetNames(i)
End With
End With
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

Sub BubbleSort(List() As String)
' Sorts the List array in ascending order
Dim First As Integer, Last As Integer
Dim i As Integer, j As Integer
Dim Temp

First = LBound(List)
Last = UBound(List)
For i = First To Last - 1
For j = i + 1 To Last
If List(i) List(j) Then
Temp = List(j)
List(j) = List(i)
List(i) = Temp
End If
Next j
Next i
End Sub

Public Sub GoToSheet()
' Action routine called by the menu
' Passed parameter is either the sheet name to call or the refresh command
If CommandBars.ActionControl.Parameter = "(...Refresh...)" Then
SheetMenu
Else
ActiveWorkbook.Sheets(CommandBars.ActionControl.Pa rameter).Activate
End If
End Sub

Hi Petr,

I had also developed one addins "workbook navigation" for my needs. If you
are interested you can download it from below site.

Some features:
1. Index of all Sheet Names in separate worksheet with hyperlink.
2. Sort sheets ascending or descending, Create\remove multiple windows.
3. Synchronies all the sheets to view same area in the worksheet.
4. Copy activesheet without truncated of cells having more then 255
characters.

...more + image in the webpage.

http://in.geocities.com/shahshaileshs/


Regards,
Shailesh Shah
http://in.geocities.com/shahshaileshs/
If You Can't Excel with Talent, Triumph with Effort.


Free Addins Office Menu-2003 for Office-2007
http://in.geocities.com/shahshaileshs/menuaddins



"Petr Danes" wrote in message
...
Thank you everyone for chiming in. My original arrangement is still the
best for my (admittedly limited) needs, so I will likely stick with it,
but I'm glad it stimulated some discussion and I've learned a few new
things along the way as well. And if my contribution helps someone else,
so much the better.

Long live newsgroups.

Petr



"Petr Danes" pí¹e v diskusním pøíspìvku
...
I recently started teaching in a software technical school, and my first
course was in advanced Excel. Naturally, I prepared a workbook with lots
of examples on various worksheets, but not until I started lecturing did I
realize that lots of sheets mean lots of scrolling left and right to
locate the correct sheet. I'd never needed a workbook with many sheets for
any of my own projects, nor those I had created for others. The course
went fairly well anyway, but I wanted a better way to navigate between
sheets.

Part of the idea came from ASAP Utilities' function of creating a
separate index sheet with clickable hyperlinks for all sheets, and part
of the code from John Walkenbach's Excel Power Programming book. (My
thanks to you both.)

The clickable index sheet function is handy, but solves only half of the
problem - it quickly locates a sheet 'somewhere', but getting back to the
index sheet for another shot out into the myriad of sheets is still a
hassle. I decided a menu bar approach suited my needs better.

The code reads in all the sheet names and creates a dropdown menu of
sheet names. Originally it included a sort as well, but then I decided
that I prefer the menu in the same order as the sheets in the workbook,
and my naming and ordering scheme results in the names being in order
anyway. The sort is still there, just the call commented out, in case
someone wants to use it that way. There is no error checking and it takes
no account of hidden properties of sheets, since I don't use that, but it
could be added easily enough. The code is called from the Workbook_Open
routine, so that the menu is freshly rebuilt every time the workbook
opens. Probably not completely necessary, but the execution time is
trivial and it makes for ease of use. I initially added a call from the
Workbook_NewSheet event, but abandoned that since the code adds the
default sheet name in use at the instant of creation (Sheet1 or some
such), which is not very useful, since I always rename the sheet to
something sensible, but by then the sheet has already been added to the
menu with default name. If there were Workbook_SheetRename and
Workbook_SheetDelete events, I would add calls there, as well as the
NewSheet event. That would make it completely automatic and always
current, but this works well enough. The first item on the menu, before
the sheet names is a refresh call, so I can keep the menu up to date
manually without having to close and re-open the workbook or switch to
the VBA editor.

There are two versions of the menu code, one creates a simple dropdown
menu list, suitable for up to approximately thirty sheets on my machine
(a bigger monitor would allow more), the second creates a two-stage list,
grouped by the first character in the sheet name. I name my sheets by
course day, so that "1.n xxxxx" is a sheet for the first day of the
course, "2.n xxxxx" for the second day and so on. "0.n xxxxx" sheets are
general sheets, not intended for any specific day. The second method
obviously better handles a very large number of sheets, at the cost of a
fraction of a second delay while the second tier unfolds. At the moment,
my code creates both versions. I'll have to use them for a while to see
which one I prefer for classroom use.

Pete

--
This e-mail address is fake, to keep spammers and their auto-harvesters
out
of my hair. If you want to get in touch personally, I am 'pdanes' and I
use
yahoo mail. But please use the newsgroup when possible, so that all may
benefit from the exchange of ideas.



Start code (watch for line wrap!)
================================================== ==

Option Explicit

Dim AEb As CommandBarButton
Dim AEp As CommandBarPopup
Dim AEp2 As CommandBarPopup
Dim SheetNames() As String

Sub SheetMenu()
Dim i&

ReDim SheetNames(1 To ActiveWorkbook.Sheets.Count)

' Fill array with sheet names
For i = 1 To UBound(SheetNames)
SheetNames(i) = Sheets(i).Name
Next i

' Sort the array in ascending order
' Not used in current implementation,
' but simply uncomment line below to order sheet names.
'BubbleSort SheetNames

' Build the sheet menus
MakeMenuItem ' simple menu
MakeMenuItem2 ' 2-tier menu

End Sub

Private Sub MakeMenuItem()
' Create the menu bar addition
Dim i&
With Application.CommandBars("Worksheet Menu Bar")
On Error Resume Next
.Controls("Sheets").Delete
On Error GoTo 0
Set AEp = .Controls.Add(msoControlPopup)
With AEp
.Caption = "Sheets"
Set AEb = .Controls.Add(msoControlButton)
With AEb
.Caption = "(...Refresh...)"
.OnAction = "GoToSheet"
.Parameter = "(...Refresh...)"
End With
For i = 1 To UBound(SheetNames)
Set AEb = .Controls.Add(msoControlButton)
With AEb
.Caption = SheetNames(i)
.OnAction = "GoToSheet"
.Parameter = SheetNames(i)
End With
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

Private Sub MakeMenuItem2()
' Create the menu bar addition
Dim i&, nmhld$

' Only one character is used for grouping
nmhld = "!"
With Application.CommandBars("Worksheet Menu Bar")
On Error Resume Next
.Controls("Sheets2").Delete
On Error GoTo 0
Set AEp = .Controls.Add(msoControlPopup)
With AEp
.Caption = "Sheets2"
Set AEb = .Controls.Add(msoControlButton)
With AEb
.Caption = "(...Refresh...)"
.OnAction = "GoToSheet"
.Parameter = "(...Refresh...)"
End With
For i = 1 To UBound(SheetNames)
If nmhld < Left$(SheetNames(i), Len(nmhld)) Then
Set AEp2 = .Controls.Add(msoControlPopup)
AEp2.Caption = Left$(SheetNames(i), InStr(SheetNames(i),
"."))
nmhld = Left$(SheetNames(i), Len(nmhld))
End If
With AEp2
Set AEb = .Controls.Add(msoControlButton)
With AEb
.Caption = SheetNames(i)
.OnAction = "GoToSheet"
.Parameter = SheetNames(i)
End With
End With
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

Sub BubbleSort(List() As String)
' Sorts the List array in ascending order
Dim First As Integer, Last As Integer
Dim i As Integer, j As Integer
Dim Temp

First = LBound(List)
Last = UBound(List)
For i = First To Last - 1
For j = i + 1 To Last
If List(i) List(j) Then
Temp = List(j)
List(j) = List(i)
List(i) = Temp
End If
Next j
Next i
End Sub

Public Sub GoToSheet()
' Action routine called by the menu
' Passed parameter is either the sheet name to call or the refresh
command
If CommandBars.ActionControl.Parameter = "(...Refresh...)" Then
SheetMenu
Else
ActiveWorkbook.Sheets(CommandBars.ActionControl.Pa rameter).Activate
End If
End Sub

Thank you Shah, it looks good, but my needs are fairly limited and the menu
bar approach I developed still suits me best. Nice job, though, you've
obviously put some effort into it.

If I may offer one small criticism, though, go easy on the color. It's easy
to overdo it and lead people to assume that a difference in color has some
additional significance, beyond what is visible in, for instance, a button's
caption. Also, some color combinations make the text harder to read,
especially on a lower-quality monitor.

Petr



"Shah Shailesh" pí¹e v diskusním pøíspìvku
...
Hi Petr,

I had also developed one addins "workbook navigation" for my needs. If you
are interested you can download it from below site.

Some features:
1. Index of all Sheet Names in separate worksheet with hyperlink.
2. Sort sheets ascending or descending, Create\remove multiple windows.
3. Synchronies all the sheets to view same area in the worksheet.
4. Copy activesheet without truncated of cells having more then 255
characters.

..more + image in the webpage.

http://in.geocities.com/shahshaileshs/


Regards,
Shailesh Shah
http://in.geocities.com/shahshaileshs/
If You Can't Excel with Talent, Triumph with Effort.


Free Addins Office Menu-2003 for Office-2007
http://in.geocities.com/shahshaileshs/menuaddins



"Petr Danes" wrote in message
...
Thank you everyone for chiming in. My original arrangement is still the
best for my (admittedly limited) needs, so I will likely stick with it,
but I'm glad it stimulated some discussion and I've learned a few new
things along the way as well. And if my contribution helps someone else,
so much the better.

Long live newsgroups.

Petr



"Petr Danes" pí¹e v diskusním pøíspìvku
...
I recently started teaching in a software technical school, and my first
course was in advanced Excel. Naturally, I prepared a workbook with lots
of examples on various worksheets, but not until I started lecturing did
I realize that lots of sheets mean lots of scrolling left and right to
locate the correct sheet. I'd never needed a workbook with many sheets
for any of my own projects, nor those I had created for others. The
course went fairly well anyway, but I wanted a better way to navigate
between sheets.

Part of the idea came from ASAP Utilities' function of creating a
separate index sheet with clickable hyperlinks for all sheets, and part
of the code from John Walkenbach's Excel Power Programming book. (My
thanks to you both.)

The clickable index sheet function is handy, but solves only half of the
problem - it quickly locates a sheet 'somewhere', but getting back to
the index sheet for another shot out into the myriad of sheets is still
a hassle. I decided a menu bar approach suited my needs better.

The code reads in all the sheet names and creates a dropdown menu of
sheet names. Originally it included a sort as well, but then I decided
that I prefer the menu in the same order as the sheets in the workbook,
and my naming and ordering scheme results in the names being in order
anyway. The sort is still there, just the call commented out, in case
someone wants to use it that way. There is no error checking and it
takes no account of hidden properties of sheets, since I don't use that,
but it could be added easily enough. The code is called from the
Workbook_Open routine, so that the menu is freshly rebuilt every time
the workbook opens. Probably not completely necessary, but the execution
time is trivial and it makes for ease of use. I initially added a call
from the Workbook_NewSheet event, but abandoned that since the code adds
the default sheet name in use at the instant of creation (Sheet1 or some
such), which is not very useful, since I always rename the sheet to
something sensible, but by then the sheet has already been added to the
menu with default name. If there were Workbook_SheetRename and
Workbook_SheetDelete events, I would add calls there, as well as the
NewSheet event. That would make it completely automatic and always
current, but this works well enough. The first item on the menu, before
the sheet names is a refresh call, so I can keep the menu up to date
manually without having to close and re-open the workbook or switch to
the VBA editor.

There are two versions of the menu code, one creates a simple dropdown
menu list, suitable for up to approximately thirty sheets on my machine
(a bigger monitor would allow more), the second creates a two-stage
list, grouped by the first character in the sheet name. I name my sheets
by course day, so that "1.n xxxxx" is a sheet for the first day of the
course, "2.n xxxxx" for the second day and so on. "0.n xxxxx" sheets are
general sheets, not intended for any specific day. The second method
obviously better handles a very large number of sheets, at the cost of a
fraction of a second delay while the second tier unfolds. At the moment,
my code creates both versions. I'll have to use them for a while to see
which one I prefer for classroom use.

Pete

--
This e-mail address is fake, to keep spammers and their auto-harvesters
out
of my hair. If you want to get in touch personally, I am 'pdanes' and I
use
yahoo mail. But please use the newsgroup when possible, so that all may
benefit from the exchange of ideas.



Start code (watch for line wrap!)
================================================== ==

Option Explicit

Dim AEb As CommandBarButton
Dim AEp As CommandBarPopup
Dim AEp2 As CommandBarPopup
Dim SheetNames() As String

Sub SheetMenu()
Dim i&

ReDim SheetNames(1 To ActiveWorkbook.Sheets.Count)

' Fill array with sheet names
For i = 1 To UBound(SheetNames)
SheetNames(i) = Sheets(i).Name
Next i

' Sort the array in ascending order
' Not used in current implementation,
' but simply uncomment line below to order sheet names.
'BubbleSort SheetNames

' Build the sheet menus
MakeMenuItem ' simple menu
MakeMenuItem2 ' 2-tier menu

End Sub

Private Sub MakeMenuItem()
' Create the menu bar addition
Dim i&
With Application.CommandBars("Worksheet Menu Bar")
On Error Resume Next
.Controls("Sheets").Delete
On Error GoTo 0
Set AEp = .Controls.Add(msoControlPopup)
With AEp
.Caption = "Sheets"
Set AEb = .Controls.Add(msoControlButton)
With AEb
.Caption = "(...Refresh...)"
.OnAction = "GoToSheet"
.Parameter = "(...Refresh...)"
End With
For i = 1 To UBound(SheetNames)
Set AEb = .Controls.Add(msoControlButton)
With AEb
.Caption = SheetNames(i)
.OnAction = "GoToSheet"
.Parameter = SheetNames(i)
End With
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

Private Sub MakeMenuItem2()
' Create the menu bar addition
Dim i&, nmhld$

' Only one character is used for grouping
nmhld = "!"
With Application.CommandBars("Worksheet Menu Bar")
On Error Resume Next
.Controls("Sheets2").Delete
On Error GoTo 0
Set AEp = .Controls.Add(msoControlPopup)
With AEp
.Caption = "Sheets2"
Set AEb = .Controls.Add(msoControlButton)
With AEb
.Caption = "(...Refresh...)"
.OnAction = "GoToSheet"
.Parameter = "(...Refresh...)"
End With
For i = 1 To UBound(SheetNames)
If nmhld < Left$(SheetNames(i), Len(nmhld)) Then
Set AEp2 = .Controls.Add(msoControlPopup)
AEp2.Caption = Left$(SheetNames(i), InStr(SheetNames(i),
"."))
nmhld = Left$(SheetNames(i), Len(nmhld))
End If
With AEp2
Set AEb = .Controls.Add(msoControlButton)
With AEb
.Caption = SheetNames(i)
.OnAction = "GoToSheet"
.Parameter = SheetNames(i)
End With
End With
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

Sub BubbleSort(List() As String)
' Sorts the List array in ascending order
Dim First As Integer, Last As Integer
Dim i As Integer, j As Integer
Dim Temp

First = LBound(List)
Last = UBound(List)
For i = First To Last - 1
For j = i + 1 To Last
If List(i) List(j) Then
Temp = List(j)
List(j) = List(i)
List(i) = Temp
End If
Next j
Next i
End Sub

Public Sub GoToSheet()
' Action routine called by the menu
' Passed parameter is either the sheet name to call or the refresh
command
If CommandBars.ActionControl.Parameter = "(...Refresh...)" Then
SheetMenu
Else
ActiveWorkbook.Sheets(CommandBars.ActionControl.Pa rameter).Activate
End If
End Sub

Petr, Thanks for the comment. BTW it has also popup menubar to see the list
of workbook & sheet name to activate in addition to userform.

Regards,
Shailesh

"Petr Danes" wrote in message
...
Thank you Shah, it looks good, but my needs are fairly limited and the
menu bar approach I developed still suits me best. Nice job, though,
you've obviously put some effort into it.

If I may offer one small criticism, though, go easy on the color. It's
easy to overdo it and lead people to assume that a difference in color has
some additional significance, beyond what is visible in, for instance, a
button's caption. Also, some color combinations make the text harder to
read, especially on a lower-quality monitor.

Petr



"Shah Shailesh" pí¹e v diskusním pøíspìvku
...
Hi Petr,

I had also developed one addins "workbook navigation" for my needs. If
you are interested you can download it from below site.

Some features:
1. Index of all Sheet Names in separate worksheet with hyperlink.
2. Sort sheets ascending or descending, Create\remove multiple windows.
3. Synchronies all the sheets to view same area in the worksheet.
4. Copy activesheet without truncated of cells having more then 255
characters.

..more + image in the webpage.

http://in.geocities.com/shahshaileshs/


Regards,
Shailesh Shah
http://in.geocities.com/shahshaileshs/
If You Can't Excel with Talent, Triumph with Effort.


Free Addins Office Menu-2003 for Office-2007
http://in.geocities.com/shahshaileshs/menuaddins



"Petr Danes" wrote in message
...
Thank you everyone for chiming in. My original arrangement is still the
best for my (admittedly limited) needs, so I will likely stick with it,
but I'm glad it stimulated some discussion and I've learned a few new
things along the way as well. And if my contribution helps someone else,
so much the better.

Long live newsgroups.

Petr



"Petr Danes" pí¹e v diskusním pøíspìvku
...
I recently started teaching in a software technical school, and my first
course was in advanced Excel. Naturally, I prepared a workbook with lots
of examples on various worksheets, but not until I started lecturing did
I realize that lots of sheets mean lots of scrolling left and right to
locate the correct sheet. I'd never needed a workbook with many sheets
for any of my own projects, nor those I had created for others. The
course went fairly well anyway, but I wanted a better way to navigate
between sheets.

Part of the idea came from ASAP Utilities' function of creating a
separate index sheet with clickable hyperlinks for all sheets, and part
of the code from John Walkenbach's Excel Power Programming book. (My
thanks to you both.)

The clickable index sheet function is handy, but solves only half of
the problem - it quickly locates a sheet 'somewhere', but getting back
to the index sheet for another shot out into the myriad of sheets is
still a hassle. I decided a menu bar approach suited my needs better.

The code reads in all the sheet names and creates a dropdown menu of
sheet names. Originally it included a sort as well, but then I decided
that I prefer the menu in the same order as the sheets in the workbook,
and my naming and ordering scheme results in the names being in order
anyway. The sort is still there, just the call commented out, in case
someone wants to use it that way. There is no error checking and it
takes no account of hidden properties of sheets, since I don't use
that, but it could be added easily enough. The code is called from the
Workbook_Open routine, so that the menu is freshly rebuilt every time
the workbook opens. Probably not completely necessary, but the
execution time is trivial and it makes for ease of use. I initially
added a call from the Workbook_NewSheet event, but abandoned that since
the code adds the default sheet name in use at the instant of creation
(Sheet1 or some such), which is not very useful, since I always rename
the sheet to something sensible, but by then the sheet has already been
added to the menu with default name. If there were Workbook_SheetRename
and Workbook_SheetDelete events, I would add calls there, as well as
the NewSheet event. That would make it completely automatic and always
current, but this works well enough. The first item on the menu, before
the sheet names is a refresh call, so I can keep the menu up to date
manually without having to close and re-open the workbook or switch to
the VBA editor.

There are two versions of the menu code, one creates a simple dropdown
menu list, suitable for up to approximately thirty sheets on my machine
(a bigger monitor would allow more), the second creates a two-stage
list, grouped by the first character in the sheet name. I name my
sheets by course day, so that "1.n xxxxx" is a sheet for the first day
of the course, "2.n xxxxx" for the second day and so on. "0.n xxxxx"
sheets are general sheets, not intended for any specific day. The
second method obviously better handles a very large number of sheets,
at the cost of a fraction of a second delay while the second tier
unfolds. At the moment, my code creates both versions. I'll have to use
them for a while to see which one I prefer for classroom use.

Pete

--
This e-mail address is fake, to keep spammers and their auto-harvesters
out
of my hair. If you want to get in touch personally, I am 'pdanes' and I
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Option Explicit

Dim AEb As CommandBarButton
Dim AEp As CommandBarPopup
Dim AEp2 As CommandBarPopup
Dim SheetNames() As String

Sub SheetMenu()
Dim i&

ReDim SheetNames(1 To ActiveWorkbook.Sheets.Count)

' Fill array with sheet names
For i = 1 To UBound(SheetNames)
SheetNames(i) = Sheets(i).Name
Next i

' Sort the array in ascending order
' Not used in current implementation,
' but simply uncomment line below to order sheet names.
'BubbleSort SheetNames

' Build the sheet menus
MakeMenuItem ' simple menu
MakeMenuItem2 ' 2-tier menu

End Sub

Private Sub MakeMenuItem()
' Create the menu bar addition
Dim i&
With Application.CommandBars("Worksheet Menu Bar")
On Error Resume Next
.Controls("Sheets").Delete
On Error GoTo 0
Set AEp = .Controls.Add(msoControlPopup)
With AEp
.Caption = "Sheets"
Set AEb = .Controls.Add(msoControlButton)
With AEb
.Caption = "(...Refresh...)"
.OnAction = "GoToSheet"
.Parameter = "(...Refresh...)"
End With
For i = 1 To UBound(SheetNames)
Set AEb = .Controls.Add(msoControlButton)
With AEb
.Caption = SheetNames(i)
.OnAction = "GoToSheet"
.Parameter = SheetNames(i)
End With
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

Private Sub MakeMenuItem2()
' Create the menu bar addition
Dim i&, nmhld$

' Only one character is used for grouping
nmhld = "!"
With Application.CommandBars("Worksheet Menu Bar")
On Error Resume Next
.Controls("Sheets2").Delete
On Error GoTo 0
Set AEp = .Controls.Add(msoControlPopup)
With AEp
.Caption = "Sheets2"
Set AEb = .Controls.Add(msoControlButton)
With AEb
.Caption = "(...Refresh...)"
.OnAction = "GoToSheet"
.Parameter = "(...Refresh...)"
End With
For i = 1 To UBound(SheetNames)
If nmhld < Left$(SheetNames(i), Len(nmhld)) Then
Set AEp2 = .Controls.Add(msoControlPopup)
AEp2.Caption = Left$(SheetNames(i), InStr(SheetNames(i),
"."))
nmhld = Left$(SheetNames(i), Len(nmhld))
End If
With AEp2
Set AEb = .Controls.Add(msoControlButton)
With AEb
.Caption = SheetNames(i)
.OnAction = "GoToSheet"
.Parameter = SheetNames(i)
End With
End With
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

Sub BubbleSort(List() As String)
' Sorts the List array in ascending order
Dim First As Integer, Last As Integer
Dim i As Integer, j As Integer
Dim Temp

First = LBound(List)
Last = UBound(List)
For i = First To Last - 1
For j = i + 1 To Last
If List(i) List(j) Then
Temp = List(j)
List(j) = List(i)
List(i) = Temp
End If
Next j
Next i
End Sub

Public Sub GoToSheet()
' Action routine called by the menu
' Passed parameter is either the sheet name to call or the refresh
command
If CommandBars.ActionControl.Parameter = "(...Refresh...)" Then
SheetMenu
Else
ActiveWorkbook.Sheets(CommandBars.ActionControl.Pa rameter).Activate
End If
End Sub