Names

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Glenn and Tracy Brown

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
 
Glenn and Tracy Brown said:
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??
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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.
 
Sat, 3 Nov 2007 12:24:54 -0400 from Otto Moehrbach
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
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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.
 
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