How to Move or Copy entire worksheet to another Excel workbook

Sometimes you may need to move or copy the whole worksheet to another Excel workbook. You can move or copy a worksheet to another Excel workbook by following below steps.

Note that "Move" means copying the whole worksheet to another workbook and deletion of copied worksheet from original workbook. "Copy" means the duplication of whole worksheet in another workbook.

Step 1 - Make sure both workbooks are open in Excel (the workbook from where the worksheet is copied and the workbook to where the worksheet is copied or moved).

Step 2 - Right-click on the worksheet Tab which you want to move or copy to another workbook and select "Move or Copy" from the menu, as shown in below image. Note that the name of current active workbook name is "source_workbook.xslx", which is displayed in Titlebar.

Step 2 - "Move or Copy" dialog box will be displayed as shown in below image. By default, the active workbook (the workbook you are working) is selected in "Move selected sheets To book" Drop-down menu.

Step 3 - Click on "Move selected sheets To book" Drop-down menu. Currently open workbooks are listed in "Move selected sheets To book" Drop-down menu. You have an option to move the worksheet to a new workbook also.

Step 4 - Perform below activities on "Move or Copy" dialog box to move or copy the worksheet to another workbook, as shown in below image.

• Currently open Excel workbooks are listed in "Move selected sheets To book" Drop-down menu. Select the workbook to which you want to copy the worksheet. In this example, the workbook is copied to "destination_workbook.xlsx".

• The worksheets in the selected workbook is listed in in "Before sheet" list box. Copied or moved worksheet's new position will be before the selected worksheet. Select the position where you want to move of copy the worksheet.

• Select whether you want to move or copy the worksheet in "Create a copy" checkbox. If the checkbox is checked, the worksheet will be copied. Else the worksheet will be moved. In this example, the checkbox is checked to copy the worksheet.

• Click "OK" button to finish worksheet copy or move, as shown in below image.

Step 5 - You can see that the worksheet is copied to another workbook as shown in below image. You may rename it according to your requirement.