Compiling Certain Data from Tabs into one Consolidated Tab

[elethepunk]

Hey guys!

I'm quite new to excel and VBA and trying to pick up my knowledge recently. My employer had "challenged" me of automating a certain process to make it quicker. The task goes as follows:

There are 5 tabs (for example) that are differentiated by regions. For instance, tab 1 is region canada, 2 is the us, etc. In each of the tabs, there are certain comments to be made on certain cells. for instance, cell A5 would say: Down by 4000, or cell A6 would say up by 2300. What the challenge is, is to make a macro that would take all these comments from each tab, and process it into the consolidated tab. So for example, if Canada has cell A5 with the value of "Up by 200" and US has cell A5 with value of "Down 200", in the consolidated tab, if we click on it, it would say Region - Canada: Up by 200, and Region - USA: Down by 200. I tried to use vlookup to make this process faster, but I was wondering if there was a macro or a button, to instantly automate this process. Thank you.

 

[ravishankar]

try the following macro codes prefereably attached to a button

Sub collate()
Dim a As Long
Sheets.Add.Name = "summary"
For a = 1 To Sheets.Count
Sheets("summary").Cells(a, 1) = Sheets(a).Name
Sheets("summary").Cells(a, 2) = Sheets(a).Cells(5, 1)
Sheets("summary").Cells(a, 3) = Sheets(a).Cells(6, 1)
Next a
MsgBox "complete"
End Sub

ravishankar