Hi Barb,

From Excel Help:

What characters are allowed? The first character of a name must be a letter, an underscore character (_), or a backslash (\).
Remaining characters in the name can be letters, numbers, periods, and underscore characters.


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Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel


"Barb Reinhardt" wrote in message
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| I'm trying to create named ranges programmatically and need to know what
| characters are and are not allowed in the names. So far, I assume that _ and
| text are included. I know that a lot of special characters are not
| (&,+,-,space, etc).
|
| Can someone assist?
|
| Thanks,
| Barb