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PDF Guide 1 - Moving or Copying Worksheets Between Different Workbooks

This document provides instructions for moving or copying worksheets between different Excel workbooks. The key steps are: 1. Open both the source and destination workbooks. 2. Select the worksheets you want to copy/move in the source workbook. 3. Right click the selected tabs and choose "Move or Copy". 4. In the dialog box, select the destination workbook and placement, and check the box to create a copy rather than move the sheets. 5. Click OK to copy the selected worksheets into the other open workbook.

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PDF Guide 1 - Moving or Copying Worksheets Between Different Workbooks

This document provides instructions for moving or copying worksheets between different Excel workbooks. The key steps are: 1. Open both the source and destination workbooks. 2. Select the worksheets you want to copy/move in the source workbook. 3. Right click the selected tabs and choose "Move or Copy". 4. In the dialog box, select the destination workbook and placement, and check the box to create a copy rather than move the sheets. 5. Click OK to copy the selected worksheets into the other open workbook.

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Moving or Copying Worksheets between different

Workbooks
This visual guide will help you to move or copy worksheets from one Excel workbook to another
workbook.

In this example we are copying worksheets from a workbook called “Range Name and Multiple Sheets”
to a workbook called “Excel - Formula Intro”. These workbooks are used purely to illustrate the
concept and has nothing to do with your Assignment Exercises.

How to move or copy a worksheet(s)

1. The first step is to make sure that both your workbooks are open at the same time. It is
preferable that the location of both workbooks be the same or similar e.g. both workbooks
saved on the Desktop or in the same folder. Please refrain from working within a zipped folder.

2. In this example, the workbook from which we intend to copy from has the following worksheets:

3. In this example, the workbook which we wish to insert the sheets into has the following
worksheet currently:
4. Select the sheet or multiple sheets that you wish to copy / move. Use the SHIFT or CTRL key on
the keyboard to select multiple sheets. Selecting multiple sheets will also be covered in the
video “Range Name and Working with Multiple Sheets”. In this example, we have selected the
January, February and March sheets.

OR

5. Right click on the selected worksheet tab(s). Click on “Move or Copy”:


6. The following window will appear. Take note of the following fields:
“To Book” - This is the destination workbook where you wish to copy/move the
worksheets to.
“Before Sheet” - This the exact placement within the destination workbook that you
wish to place the worksheets.

7. Select the dropdown for “To Book” and select the destination workbook you wish to insert the
worksheets to.
8. Then select the placement for the worksheets. We will select “Move to end” in this example

9. Before you click OK, make sure that you click on the box “Create a Copy”. If you do not click this
box, you would “move” the sheet(s) from one workbook to another. You cannot undo this
action. It is recommended that you ALWAYS click on this box. It will copy the sheets and insert it
in the destination workbook. You can always delete the worksheets from the original workbook
at a later stage.

10. Click on “OK”. Your new sheets will appear in the destination workbook.

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