Excel should indicate a list of inactive names
 

It would be useful in Excel if the list of Names would indicate whether a
name is active (i.e. it has precedents or dependents). Also, it would be
useful to know whether certain names are in fact duplicates of each other.

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Excel should indicate a list of inactive names
 

You may want to get Jan Karel Pieterse's (with Charles Williams and Matthew
Henson) Name Manager:

You can find it at:
NameManager.Zip from http://www.oaltd.co.uk/mvp

It'll make working with names much, much easier.


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But be careful.

A name can be in use in code (or other names) and never be in use in a formula.

72947 wrote:

It would be useful in Excel if the list of Names would indicate whether a
name is active (i.e. it has precedents or dependents). Also, it would be
useful to know whether certain names are in fact duplicates of each other.

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This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc

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Dave Peterson