ThisWorkbook.Sheets with variable

[BobtBuilder]

Hi folks,
I am trying to create a generic code that could use the sheet name, which is stored in a cell.
Dim wsName As String
Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim targetCell As Range

' Set the target cell (N3 in this case) for the active sheet
Set targetCell = ActiveSheet.Range("N3")

' Get the value from the target cell
wsName = targetCell.Value

Set ws = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("wsName") ' Here is where I would like the name of the sheet to be, (wsname is correct) but cannot set ws, keep getting subscript out of range, but yet wsname is correct.

Please advise

 

[Jeffrey Mahoney]

Set ws = ThisWorkbook.Sheets(wsName)

wsName is a variable so you don't need the quotes around it

 

[BobtBuilder]

Set ws = ThisWorkbook.Sheets(wsName)

wsName is a variable so you don't need the quotes around it

I tried that same thing

 

[Jeffrey Mahoney]

So, are you sure that Activesheet is the sheet you want where the N3 stores a name of a sheet? Did you try to Debug the code one step at at time using F8? When you get to the line
wsName = targetCell.Value
Hover over targetcell.value and see what is store in the variable

 

[BobtBuilder]

So, are you sure that Activesheet is the sheet you want where the N3 stores a name of a sheet? Did you try to Debug the code one step at at time using F8? When you get to the line
wsName = targetCell.Value
Hover over targetcell.value and see what is store in the variable

the targetcell and wsname are correct it seems the ws is not being initialised

 

[MARK858]

Are you sure that there are no leading or trailing spaces in both the name on the sheet tab and the value in N3?

 

[BobtBuilder]

Are you sure that there are no leading or trailing spaces in both the name on the sheet tab and the value in N3?

I found the problem, although cell n3 did have the name it did not have the underscore. thank you for your help

 

[MARK858]

Happy that you worked it out

 

[smozgur]

The only problem in the provided code was using the quotes around the variable name, and post #2 is the solution of the original question as it clearly explains that variable names shouldn't be surrounded by quotes in VBA.

Set ws = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("wsName")

The underscore issue is a typo error that has nothing to do with the syntax error in the provided code.

Therefore, the solution post has been changed accordingly to provide consistency and help to the future readers.