yes, performance will be very slow. 300,000 named ranges is not a good idea.
You can probably reduce the number of named ranges by a large factor by
using implicit intersection.

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I've already posted about a similar issue with creating the named
ranges and have successfully created all 300,000 needed for a
particular project I am working on...however, is having 300,000 named
ranges going to result into performance issues with Excel at some point?