How to copy an entire Excel worksheet (on Excel for Mac)

There’s a quick and easy way to move an entire Excel worksheet to a different workbook.

Side note: A workbook is what you’d typically think of as an Excel file. It can contain multiple work sheets. Worksheets are added, deleted and managed in the tabs at the bottom.

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I’ve seen people copy entire worksheets using copy/paste. Which works fine, especially if you know the trick that clicking the box in the top left (right between A and 1) will highlight everything in the worksheet. However, this often means that you’ll need to reformat your column widths and row heights. A good solution to this problem is to copy the entire worksheet at once.

Step 1: Open both workbooks (the one with the worksheet you want to move and the one you want to move it to).

Step 2: Right-click on the tab for the worksheet you want to move. This will give you a menu. Select “Move or Copy”

Note: It’s possible to copy multiple worksheets at once, all you need to do is hold down Command (for Mac) and select multiple tabs BEFORE you right-click

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Step 3a: Select the workbook you want to move your worksheet to

Step 3b: Select “Create a copy” (if you want to keep a copy in your current workbook)

Step 3c: Select ok.

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Now your entire worksheet has been copied to another workbook.

 

8 thoughts on “How to copy an entire Excel worksheet (on Excel for Mac)

  1. thanks for your suggestions to move a copy a work book need to do this for a project at work ; I read some of your other writings very special. david

  2. Mac: to click on tab use two fingers for a right click or hold down control key when you click on tab.
    My entire workbook did not copy to new workbook only Sheet 1 did, did I miss something please?

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