Shawn,

further to Ron's explanation, it has probably occurred if
you've copied a sheet with a named range on it. You can
have a Named Range specific to a Worksheet, as well as to
a workbook. When you look in the Insert Names Define
dialogue you will see the definition of the name specific
to that sheet. If there is no sheet specific range, it
will show the definition of the workbook level name.
Equally, a sheet-level name will only appear in the
dialogue box when you have that sheet active. Which makes
it a right pain trying to find linked workbooks!

To see an example of this, create a range named "Shawn",
then make a copy of the worksheet. Now open the Names
dialogue: you should see the definition of "Shawn" with
the (copied) sheet name to the left of it. Delete this
definition and you should see it replaced by the original
range from the first sheet.

Cheers, Pete

-----Original Message-----
Hi Shawn

You can use the same name more then one time.
This example will add the name ron in all your sheets

Sub Give_name_on_all_sheets()
Dim Sh As Worksheet
For Each Sh In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
Sh.Range("a1").Name = Sh.Name & "!ron"
Next
Sheets(1).Select
End Sub

in a cell use =ron to get the value from cell A1 on that
sheet

--
Regards Ron de Bruin
http://www.rondebruin.nl


"Shawn" wrote in
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Hi

Hi

I just noticed something that was very strange and I
need to find out whether or not this is expected. It looks
like multiple
named ranges with exactly the same name can exist in one
workbook. This means that different cells are referenced
at different
situations if this named range is used in formulas. My
understanding was that range names have to be unique
within a workbook. Which
behaviour is expected?

In addition, if you look through the Insert|Name|Define
menu option only one reference shows for a particular
duplicated named
range.

This may sound like an observation that is not very
important but it is very important for what I'm attempting
to do.

Thanks a lot

Shawn