Copy and Move Worksheets Within and Between Workbooks

Sometimes, you do need a number of worksheets with common formatting and data entry. For example, if you work with quarterly budgets, you might want to create a workbook with sheets that contain the same column headings, row headings, and formulas. There is a way to do this: by creating one sheet and then copying it three times.

Aspose.Cells supports copying or moving worksheets within or between workbooks. Worksheets including data, formatting, tables, matrices, charts, images and other objects are copied with the highest degree of precision.

Copying and Moving Worksheets

Copying a Worksheet within a Workbook

The initial steps are the same for all examples.

1. Create two workbooks with some data in Microsoft Excel. For the purposes of this example, we created two new workbooks in Microsoft Excel and input some data into the worksheets.

• FirstWorkbook.xlsx (3 worksheets).
• SecondWorkbook.xlsx (1 worksheet).

1. Download and install Aspose.Cells:
   1. Download Aspose.Cells for .NET.
   2. Install it on your development computer. All Aspose components, when installed, work in evaluation mode. The evaluation mode has no time limit and it only injects watermarks into produced documents.
2. Create a project:
   1. Start Visual Studio.Net.
   2. Create a new console application.
3. Add references:
   1. Add a reference to Aspose.Cells to the project. For example, add a reference to …\Program Files\Aspose\Aspose.Cells\Bin\Net1.0\Aspose.Cells.dll
4. Copy the worksheet within a workbook The first example copies the first worksheet (Copy) within FirstWorkbook.xlsx.

When executing the code, the worksheet named Copy is copied within FirstWorkbook.xlsx with the name Last Sheet.

Moving a Worksheet within a Workbook

The code below shows how to move a worksheet from one position in a workbook to another. Executing the code moves the worksheet called Move from index 1 to index 2 in FirstWorkbook.xlsx.

Copying a Worksheet between Workbooks

Executing the code copies the worksheet named Copy is to SecondWorkbook.xlsx with the name Sheet2.

Moving a Worksheet between Workbooks

Executing the code moves the worksheet named Move from FirstWorkbook.xlsx to SecondWorkbook.xlsx with the name Sheet3.