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 v4.1 (Build 615, Updated 13 Oct 2009, 736k, Downloaded: 64398 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 V4.1 (Build 615, Updated 13 Oct 2009, 743k, downloaded: 14619 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 build:

Build 615: Bugfix in adding local name to active sheet

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 Portugese
- Swedish
- 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 is stable? Name Manager 3.2 (Downloaded: 3658 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: 3286 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: Nick A (1/15/2010 7:22:55 AM)

Hi, I wrote something similar, but nowhere near as comprehensive, quite a few years ago before realising that so much of this type of stuff can be found online, written by people much more experience and qualified than me!

One thing I have in my sheet with a list of names is to have a hyperlink from the name cell to that range, so you can easily check a name, the formula/range it refers to and then the actual region. I find this useful when using dynamic named ranges and it may not always be clear from the formula what the actual range is.

I also have the actual cell value (or "-range-") if not a single cell, which I find useful as another way to check/list multiple named single cell input variables.

Hope you may find that a useful idea and something to consider adding.

Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (1/15/2010 7:47:43 AM)

Hi Nick,

Thanks for the suggestions!

Comment by: Dennis (1/26/2010 7:52:21 AM)

What a wonderful utility !
Thank you so very much for providing it free!

Comment by: Andrew Blundon (2/3/2010 8:53:34 AM)

Hi there, I've been using Name Manager for years. I would be lost without it.

We just upgraded to Excel 2007. I've installed NM but when I open excel I get: Compile Error in hidden module, fxlNameManager.

I tried the Excel 2007 Diagnostics (no Detect and Repair in 2007) but there were no errors found.

Any suggestions?

Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (2/3/2010 10:45:38 PM)

Hi Andrew,

I'm afraid somethingmust be off with your installation of Office anyway. Try going to Microsoft Update, see if any Office updates are available.

Comment by: Andrew Blundon (2/4/2010 5:44:34 AM)

Excellent Jan,

Office 2007 SP2 wasn't installed. As soon as I installed it, Name Manager came back to life.

Thanks!

Comment by: Aaron (2/5/2010 12:07:52 PM)

I just installed Office 2010 Beta, and I keep getting a "Code Interrupted" error every time I try to add names with Name Manager, and then Excel 2010 crashes. Any ideas? Thank you so much for this utility--it is an enormous time saver!

Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (2/6/2010 6:21:12 AM)

Hi Aaron,

Thanks for letting me know, I'll check this when I find some time.

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