If you know you want to delete the name, just delete it and ignore any error.

on error resume next
activeworkbook.names("somenamehere").delete
on error goto 0


JCS wrote:

Hello Everyone,

I'm not very good at VBA, hiowever, I do have to occaisionally use it. Is
there a way to programatically test for a range name and then delete it if
it exists? Many thank in advance!

John

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Dave Peterson