It means Excel does not recognize a word you've entered. If you can provide
the formula someone can probably help.

You can get this error message by typing in;

=Hamburger(A1:A10)

or by typing in

=SUM(Hamburger,A1)

in the first case, it doesn't recognize the function name (hamburger) and in
the second case, it does not recognize Hamburger as a named range. There
maybe other cases that will return #NAME but these are the two I've seen
most.






"Christine" wrote in message
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I need to know what the #NAME means when it appears in a cell that I have
typed a formula in?