Have you tried NameManager
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Bob

"Al" wrote in message
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I've inherited a workbook that has some corrupt names in it (they begin
with
non-printing characters) that link to non-existant workbooks. I'd like to
delete the names, but it seems that the menu commands won't let you do
that
unless the first printable character is a zero. Is there any VBA method
to
delete such names or at least edit them to a deletable form?
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Al C