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MS Office Forum / Excel / New Users / November 2007Names
We we several worksheets at work where there are define names that do not apply to any of those worksheets, some are really old. I have a fix for removing by downloading an add-in which I can delete all of those at one time, instead of one-by-one. Question: Does anyone knows how those old names get into the worksheets?? Many of those names refer to cell references that are not valid. There are also no links involved. Does anyone know?? Range names do not just appear. Because you say the files are old I would say that the names were placed there by some prior users of the file for some purpose that was maybe valid at that time. HTH Otto > We we several worksheets at work where there are define names that do not > apply to any of those worksheets, some are really old. I have a fix for [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Does anyone know?? Sat, 3 Nov 2007 12:24:54 -0400 from Otto Moehrbach <ottokmnop@comcast.net>: > > We we several worksheets at work where there are define names that do not > > apply to any of those worksheets, some are really old. I have a fix for [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > > > Does anyone know?? > Range names do not just appear. Because you say the files are old I would > say that the names were placed there by some prior users of the file for > some purpose that was maybe valid at that time. HTH Otto Or the workbook in question was created by doing a "Save As" from a previous workbook, then deleting worksheets and perhaps rows or columns within some worksheets. I see a lot of that at work.  SignatureStan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ "If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/ > We we several worksheets at work where there are define names that do not > apply to any of those worksheets, some are really old. I have a fix for [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Does anyone know?? Poltergeists. Excel also uses names that it creates when you use different features. Bob Phillips has posted this list: *_FilterDatabase *Print_Area *Print_Titles *wvu.* *wrn.* *!Criteria (* is a wildcard that represents any string.) Maybe you could share some of the invalid names and what they currently point to. > We we several worksheets at work where there are define names that do not > apply to any of those worksheets, some are really old. I have a fix for [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Does anyone know?? SignatureDave Peterson
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