AFAIK, you can only hide names programmatically. If you only want to hide a few existing names in the active workbook, you could
enter code like the following in the Immediate pane of the VB Editor:

Names("MyName").Visible = False

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John Green - Excel MVP
Sydney
Australia


"Mark Kubicki" wrote in message ...
is there an easy way to hide names that already have been created with the
usual insert/names/define method; i'll only need to do it once, and don't
want to hide all of the names in the workbook...