Subscribe in a readerName Manager: Range names made easy
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 621, Updated 15 June 2010, 831k, Downloaded: 81699 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 621, Updated 15 June 2010, 904k, downloaded: 18809 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):
- 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
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: 4312 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: 3745 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.
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Comments
Showing last 8 comments of 387 in total (Show All Comments):Comment by: G. Michael Guy (8/24/2010 8:06:45 AM)I was unable to get your install to work. I'm running Windows 7 64bit and Office 2007. Your install file was apparently trying to copy somewhere it couldn't. I changed a line in your setup macro to fix it.
AddInLibPath = Application.LibraryPath & "\" & sFilename
to
AddInLibPath = Replace(Application.UserLibraryPath & "\" & sFilename, "\\", "\")
I included the Replace statement since it already had a "\" at the end of the path. I could have just removed the
and now it installs just fine. Someone else may find this handy.
Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (8/25/2010 12:04:28 AM)Hi Michael,
OK, that makes sense, both Vista/Win 7 do not allow you to save files in all locations and the Application library path is normally located in the program files folder, which is locked in Vista/Win 7.
What I don't get is the need for removing the double backslash. As far as I know, all Excel versions (as from Excel 5, up to 2010) omit the trailing backslash from the path. You're saying this isn't always the case?
Comment by: G. Michael Guy (8/25/2010 5:36:38 AM)Hi Jan,
Thanks for the response.
I do occasionally lose my mind or confuse myself with too many things going on, but here is a direct copy and paste from my immediate window
debug.Print Application.UserLibraryPath
C:\Users\gmichaelguy\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\AddIns\
and just for fun (with a different result!)
debug.Print Application.Path
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12
I'm sure there must be some reason for this difference with trailing \, but I don't know it.
Hope that helps.
Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (8/25/2010 11:39:26 PM)Hi Michael,
Ah, it is the userlibrarypath that does have the trailing space! I'll update my page accordingly.
Comment by: Tony Sutcliffe (8/26/2010 8:35:22 AM)Hi,
I have just downloaded Name manager and I'm very impressed - I'm sure that I will find it very useful.
However it has raised a question in that I see that there a lot of hidden names that I don't understand in a file that I have written These are of the form
Transferors!9810D1E0_FFFB_476_A1D1_A3F6B5D3EE88_.wvu.FilterData = Transferors!$A5:$R$147
The Transferors sheet has data in it to row 162 and has no Auto Filter applied. Mail Merge is used with the spreadsheet.
Have you seen these "wvu" ranges before and do you know what they are please?
Thanks,
Tony
Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (8/26/2010 11:31:06 AM)Hi Tony,
Yes and if you turn off "show system names" in the settings section of NM (bottom-right of screen) you' should see those names disappear from view. Those are range names managed by Excel if you use custom views if I recall correctly.
Comment by: Tony Sutcliffe (8/26/2010 11:50:18 AM)Hi Jan,
Thank you for the very quick response - you are quite right. They do disappear if I turn off "show system names" or delete the custom views.
To be honest I took over an existing spreadsheet and I didn't know the custom views were there. They have multiplied as I have copied sheets. I will now find out more about them as they could be useful elsewhere. Thanks again - the more I use NM the more I see what a time saver it really is - absolutely brilliant.
Tony
Comment by: Shane (8/27/2010 8:01:20 AM)This saved my bacon!!!!
My pricelist uses HUGE amounts of named cells
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