Even when one workbook is created from another, there is no psychic
relationship between them. And there is no feature in Excel that has one
workbook monitor name changes in another. So you'd have to make the changes
yourself in the secondary file. If you're familiar with creating them, a
macro could make that a lot easier. That said, I have to question your
overall design that requires this exercise, but then I don't know what
you're doing.

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Jim
"Chris" wrote in message
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|i made this workbook, which has all the data in different worksheets, at
the
| same time, this is where i made the worksheet for all other works next
time,
| this happened to be somewhat like my template...
|
| then what i did was i copied over the template worksheet into another
| workbook (to make that my main template workbook), but then only the
defined
| names for that certain worksheet was copied over i think, so what i did
was
| that i manually copied all the other defined names into the template
| worksheet of the template workbook.... but turns out that when the name
| ranges in the original data workbook has changed, the ones in the template
| workbook remain the same... how do i make them update or change with the
data
| workbook?
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