Name Manager: Range names made easy

For Microsoft^® Excel^®

Description

If you are in need of a utility to manage defined names in your workbooks, this one is a must-have. List all names in your active workbook. Filter them using 13 filters, e.g. "With external references", "With errors", Hidden, Visible. Show just names that contain a substring. Show just names unused in worksheet cells. Edit them in a simple dialog or make a list, edit the list and update all names in one go. Delete, hide, unhide selected names with a single mouse click.

Created in collaboration with Charles Williams, www.decisionmodels.com and Matthew Henson (mhenson@mac.com) who ensured the utility works on Mac Excel too. See a screenshot here.

The Name Manager is freeware, all I'd like to ask you is to tell everyone if you like it and to tell me if you don't.

Current version downloads

Name Manager for Excel 97, 2000, XP and 2003 V4.2 (Build 632, 12 Jan 2012, Downloaded: 97191 times)

Tip: Excel 97 users can download Name Manager version 3.2 below if they experience compile errors.

Name Manager for Excel 2007 and 2010 V4.2 (Build 632, 12 Jan 2012, downloaded: 32979 times)

Solving Compile errors related to Name Manager

Recently, due to an Office update, some users have complained they get a compile error during load of Name Manager: "Compile Error in hidden module, fxlNameManager".

This error is mostly resolved by opening Excel and selecting Help, detect and repair from the menu.

After doing so, Name Manager will work as expected.

New in this version (4.2):

When you delete a name, Name Manager offers to un-apply the name in your workbook.
Name Manager goes 64 bit! Name Manager now also supports the 64 bit version of Office 2010.
Icon & button for Rename
Icon and Button for GoTo
Revised Icons
Double-click a name invokes GoTo rather than Rename
GoTo has been removed from Options
Workbook Name shows in NM caption, dynamically refreshes when a different workbook is activated
Add Name allows you to add a name that refers to a different (open) workbook
Scroll bar in options removed
Bug fixed for Highlight a single Name
GoTo now works for 3D names, Relative Names, Names referring to open external workbooks
Evaluate works for names referring to open external workbooks
Minor UI changes
Fixed issue with larger grid in 2007 and 2010

Features:

Sorting of names and refersto formulas
Functionality to edit names that refer to large multiple areas.
Add name dialog
Shortcut key (default control-shift-n) to start Name Manager
Choice between icons on commandbuttons or text labels (see Screenshot).
Rename a name. Name Manager includes a rename option, which will enable you to change the name of a name and have all objects that use that name update too. (this includes VBA)
Show where a name is in use:

International version, screens and messages in national languages:
- English
- Danish
- German
- French
- Dutch
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Swedish
- Finnish
- Spanish
- And others...
Analyse Command, allows partial evaluation of names etc.
Many different filter options
Options listbox shows options for:
- Confirm Changes
- R1C1 Notation
- GoTo Selected Names
- Show RefersTo
- Show Excel System Names
- Sort Names (sort local names together by sheet)
Highlight named Ranges
Clear Highlights
Form can be resized, including minimise/maximise buttons and moving of splits

Old versions

Not sure version 4.2 is stable? Name Manager 3.2 (Downloaded: 5692 times) is still available!

Mac users, please note : version 4.0 does not work in the Mac environment, due to the use of Windows API calls. For your convenience, Name Manager 2.3 (Downloaded: 4757 times) is still available.

Instructions

Download the zip file by clicking the link above that says "NameManager.zip". Unpack the files in the zip file to a folder of your liking and open the file called "Setup Name Manager.xls". Press the button in that file to install.

Click here to request support or issue comments or suggestions on this product.

Comments

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Comment by: Masood Ahmad Dar (12/30/2011 12:17:09 PM)

sir i want to search for shortcuts command if you have to hilp me in this regard please send me ms excel commands/shortcuts keys in example.
thanks

Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (12/30/2011 12:30:04 PM)

Hi Masood,

See:

www.cpearson.com/excel/shortcuts.htm

Comment by: Bill Benson (12/30/2011 3:02:51 PM)

Hi Jan Karl, I looking forward to this software which comes highly recommended by our mutual friend R.P.

I have 420 named ranges in a workbook, some at sheet level some at workbook level; I am about to see how easy your app makes things!

PS... if I like it a lot, where do I donate?

:)

Bill

Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (1/1/2012 11:59:30 AM)

Hi Bill,

Thanks. There is a donate button on my downloads page:

http://www.jkp-ads.com/Download.asp

Comment by: Guestevez (1/16/2012 10:57:53 AM)

Thank you very much!!!, Works in Excel 2010!

Comment by: Phil Bowen (1/19/2012 5:00:18 AM)

Does this great sounding bit of kit work with mac2011?

Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (1/19/2012 10:04:56 AM)

Hi Phil,

Don't know really. I think not. But the MAC version should work, does it?

Comment by: JH (2/1/2012 9:46:43 AM)

Awesome! I had a spreadsheet with a bunch of named ranges that I could not delete with Excel's built-in Name Manager (did not show up). However, with this tool all the names showed up and I was able to delete the problems. Great work putting this together!

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