Can a worksheet object be declared globally in Excel VBA?

Question

I\'m refactoring a number of modules in an Excel 2003 workbook and the same set of worksheets are declared in each procedure in each module; I\'d like to just declare them o

Answer 1

You could, but do you really want more global variables? Why not create (within a standard module) a public property ModelWorksheet, like this:

Public Property Get ModelWorksheet As Worksheet
    Const ModelWorksheetName As String = "gs_model"
    Set ModelWorksheet = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets(ModelWorksheetName)
End Property

...then your code can do:

With ModelWorksheet
    .Cells(1,1).Value = "foo"
    .Font.Bold = True
End With

Note also that you can refer to any of the worksheets in the current workbook directly, so if there's a sheet called Sheet1 you can do:

With Sheet1
    .Cells(1,1).Value = "foo"
    .Font.Bold = True
End With