SEE: Software usage policy (Tech Pro Research) A bonus Microsoft Excel tipįrom the article 10 things you should never do in Excel by Susan Harkins: If it can't, you'll get errors when you run that procedure. If the sheet contains a procedure that references another sheet in the source workbook, Excel will do its best to find the source workbook. Moving a sheet isn't without its problems-problems that might show up later. That's all there is to it! The next time you need to copy data from one workbook to another, forget the copy and paste feature-just drag the sheet. If you want to copy the sheet instead of move it, hold down the key while you drag the sheet to the target workbook.

Click the sheet tab in the source workbook and drag it to the target workbook.

In Excel 2003, you'll find this option on the Window menu. Excel will split the screen, horizontally, between the two workbooks.

Click the View tab and choose View Side By Side in the Window group.With both the source and target workbooks open, do the following: I won't call it a shortcut, but it's always great to have another route, just in case.

Now, let's try a different technique to do the same thing.

Click OK and Excel will move or copy the sheet to the target workbook.

If you want to copy rather than move the sheet, click the Create A Copy option at the bottom of the dialog.

If necessary, update the Before Sheet selection.

Excel will display only the open workbooks in this list.

In the Move Or Copy dialog, choose the target sheet from the To Book dropdown.To bypass the ribbon or menu, right-click the sheet tab in the source workbook and choose Move Or Copy from the resulting shortcut menu. In Word 2003, choose Move Or Copy Sheet from the Edit menu. Then, select Move Or Copy Sheet in the Organize Sheets section. Click the Home tab and then click the Format dropdown in the Cells group.In the source workbook, navigate to the sheet you want to copy or move.You'll move or copy the source sheet to the target workbook.) (The source workbook contains the sheet you want to copy or move.

Open the source and the target workbook.To copy a sheet from one Excel workbook to another, using Excel's user interface, do the following: LEARN MORE: Office 365 Consumer pricing and features Then, I'll show you a second method, that's just as easy. First, I'll show you Excel's built-in route. In truth, Excel has a built-in feature that makes quick work of this task, but as usual, there's more than one way to get the job done in Excel. Copying a sheet of data from one workbook to another sounds like a complicated job.

Excel sheet side by side