Useful but flawed.
And in the present situation, it may cause valid named ranges to be skipped.
That's a disservice to the OP for you ?
LOL

Try this little experiment:
- Name a blank worksheet "ThisIsARatherLongNameForASheet"
- Select the range $A$1,$B$2,$C$3,$D$4,$E$5,$F$6,$G$7 and give it the a name
using the "Name box" of the formula bar.

Now in VBA use the range() property and the Names().referstoRange property
to Select that new named range, see what happens...

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Regards,
Luc.

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"Tom Ogilvy" wrote:

It doesn't happen often,

So making a generalized statement condemning RefersToRange without
qualification seems a disservice to the OP. It is certainly a useful
property when referring to names in other workbooks and other times as well.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy




"PapaDos" wrote in message
...
It doesn't happen often, I think it is related to the 255 characters limit
of
the "RefersTo" property. In some situations, the refersToRange property
can
even generate an error, even if the named range is working properly...

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Regards,
Luc.

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"Tom Ogilvy" wrote:

Then that would be a bug that I have never run into and I have never seen
mentioned anywhere. It always works for me and it the purpose of the
property.

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regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"PapaDos" wrote:

One more thing to consider, it happens that
activesheet.names(X).referstorange and range("X") are different sizes
ranges.
The valid one should be range("X").

So, you should set "zNmRngB" to Range(zNmRng.name) before calling the
Find()
method on it...
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Luc.

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"Tom Ogilvy" wrote:

I didn't get all the changes incorporated that I had intended:

Sub aBC()
Dim zNmRng As Name
Dim zNmRngA As Range
Dim sNmRngB As Range

For Each zNmRng In ActiveSheet.Names ' Iterate through names.
On Error Resume Next
Set zNmRngB = zNmRng.RefersToRange
On Error GoTo 0
If Not zNmRngB Is Nothing Then
Set zNmRngA = zNmRngB.Find(what:="IMP", _
After:=zNmRngB(1), _
LookIn:=xlValues, _
LookAt:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, _
SearchDirection:=xlNext, _
MatchCase:=False, _
SearchFormat:=False)
If Not zNmRngA Is Nothing Then

'Conditional formating code goes here

End If
End If
Next

End Sub

The above worked fine for me.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

wrote in message
ups.com...
Luc, If I use ActiveSheet.Names
dosent that limit the search to just the names on the active sheet?
or
does it still look at a lot of unecessary space?

Thanks for bringing this up
Robert


PapaDos wrote:
It doesn't make much sense to search ( with find() ) the entire
active
sheet
instead of your named ranges. You will get "false positives" on
many
occasions...
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Luc.

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" wrote:

Thanks Tom, I Have got that working. Im using Activesheet
because
there are many sheets from on template that have the same names
and I
may need to run diffent pass/fail criteria on differnt sheets.

Thanks Again

Tom Ogilvy wrote:
Dim zNmRng as Name
Dim zNmRngA as Range
Dim sNmRngB as Range

For Each zNmRng In ActiveSheet.Names ' Iterate through
names.
On Error Resume Next
set zNmRngB = zNmRng.RefersToRange
On Error goto 0
if not zNmRngB is Nothing then
set zNmRngA = Cells.Find(what:="IMP", _
After:=ActiveCell, _
LookIn:=xlValues, _
LookAt:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, _
SearchDirection:=xlNext,
MatchCase:= False, _
SearchFormat:=False)
if not zNmRngA is nothing Then

'Conditional formating code goes here

End If
end if
Next


You also might Try

ThisWorkbook.Names instead of Activesheet.Names

It depends on which names you want to look at.
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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


" wrote:

I need to search through the Named Ranges in a sheet and for
the
ones
that contain certain text, in this case "IMP" then I need to
set a
conditonal format to the range. I have the conditonal
formating
part
working but Im having trouble iterating through the names
for the
text

My code is

Dim zNmRng

For Each zNmRng In ActiveSheet.Names ' Iterate through
names.
If zNmRng = Cells.Find(what:="IMP", After:=ActiveCell,
LookIn:=xlValues, LookAt:= _
xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByColumns,
SearchDirection:=xlNext,
MatchCase:= _
False, SearchFormat:=False) Then

'Conditional formating code goes here

End If
Next

I am obviously using the find method incorrectly


I also want to have a second condition if, the first
conditon is
true
then I need to see if the name has "ID" in the name and if
so skip
the code. Im sure that once I figure out how to do the
first part,
the
second is just a mater of nesting.

Here are some examples of the named ranges:

IMP_100_Hz ---- do
LC_100_Hz ------ Skip
IMP_ID ------------ Skip
IMP_20K_Hz ---- do

Any help will be appreciated
Robert