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HTH

Bob


(there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy)



"beata" wrote in message
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Hi. I grabbed data from someone else's workbook - and as a result I have
30-50 "defined names" that I don't want.

Technically, they aren't a problem -- and most of them are REF errors (or
people's names I recognize but haven't worked here for years) but I'd
really
like to delete them all 'en masse' rather than one at a time.

is there a way to do that?

thanks in advance,
beata