Creating a collection of visible worksheets

[Rich]

I need to search for data contained on certain worksheets. My current method
is this:

dim wks as worksheet
For Each wks in ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
if wks.name like "Data (*)" and wks.visible = xlSheetVisible
***now I collect my data***
......

My question is....
I have quite a few pages (15 to 18 min...maybe more) that are hidden, but I
have to cycle thru them because they are part of "ThisWorkbook". Although
this really does not take much time, I'd like to have a cleaner way. Is
there a simple way of creating a collection of only the VISIBLE worksheets in
the ThisWorkbook - thus reducing the number of worksheets I need to iterate
thru in the "For Each" loop??

Taking it a step further....creating a collection of visible worksheets
whose name matches the criteria I define??

Thanks!!!

 

[JLGWhiz]

Your question is a little confusing, since the code you posted does
eliminate the hidden sheets. It probably takes a gigasecond for the
compiler to see that a sheet is not visible with the code currently used.

 

[Jim Thomlinson]

Can it be done... Absolutely. Should it be done... Probably not. Unless you
need to itterate through these sheets a whole pile of times or other
procedures need to use these same sheets then there will be more overhead in
creating the collection than there is in your existing code.

 

[Rich]

Great! Thanks, guys!!
Being a bit of a rookie at this level of programming, I wanted to make sure
I was not taking the scenic path to the end result instead of the direct path.

Thanks for the replies!

 

[Rich]

Thanks. I was just trying to make sure that I was doing this in the most
efficient way - for execution time, code writing and code organization.