Don't right click on the tab. Double click to select the tab text and type
what you want.

Regards

Trevor


"jonwyn" wrote in message
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aargh...All I want to do is rename an open sheet so that it reads English9
rather than Sheet 1....easy enough, one would think. I right click on the
tab, type in the text. First time I did this, it was renamed as
.xls]English9. I tried again as I didn't like the .xls] in front of my
chosen title. Now I am stuck. The message I get states that I have
entered
an invalid name, that it must be 31 characteres or less, certain forbidden
symbols, etc. I can't save the spreadsheet, or work on it, until I can
resolve the name issue--It won't let me do anything. please help