Name Manager; Range Names made easy

What is Name Manager (office-js edition)

Name Manager (office-js edition) is the Office-JavaScript counterpart of our VBA Name Manager Excel add-in. Contrary to the VBA Name Manager add-in, Name Manager (office-js edition) works in both desktop Excel and Excel on-line.

Name Manager is free of charge and works in Windows and Mac Excel 365, both 32 and 64 bits and Excel on-line.

What makes Name Manager special is that it allows you to add, edit and manage range names in Excel on-line, which currently does not offer any range name editing options.

Installation instructions

Find the tool by opening Excel and clicking Insert, Get Add-ins (or File, Add-ins). You can view the animated gif below by placing your mouse over it (or tapping on the picture on-screen if you happen to have a touch screen):

In the add-ins list, search for "Name Manager" (without the quotes). Even though Name Manager will not show up at the top, if you set the "Sort by" to "Name" the add-ins are listed in alphabetical order.
If you have a hard time finding the add-in, you can also search for JKP.

If you click on the found item, you should get a page like this:

To add Name Manager to your Excel, click the Add button.

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Instructions

After installing, Name Manager sets up a button on the Formulas tab:

Here is a screen-shot of a the main window:

And this is what the tool looks like in Excel on-line:

Refresh

Click the button to refresh the list of names

Add

Adds a new range name, using this screen:

Edit

Edits the selected name(s), using this screen. If you had more than one name selected in the list window, you will only be able to change the visibilty of those names.

Note that you cannot edit the name or the scope of the name. To be able do that you need our VBA version.

Delete

Deletes the selected name(s)

Names

The list of range names found in the workbook. Each name is pre-pended with its scope

Name contains

This allows you to filter the list of names. The list will be limited to those names which have the characters you type into this box in either their name or in their scope worksheet name.

Scope

Filters the list of names to the scope you choose here.

Name Types

Filters the list of names for names with the selected characteristic. Please note that Excel system names (names controlled by Excel such as print_area) can only bee seen by choosing this filter type.

Donate

If you really like Name Manager (office-js edition), please consider donating to help support it's future development:

Recent Changes

Build 1.0.0.0, 2024-01-02: First release.

Build 1.0.0.0, 2024-01-30: Various bug fixes, eanbled deleting multiple names, improved handling of different screen-heights.

Updating

If you are not sure you are using the latest version, click inside the Name Manager pane and press control+F5 to ensure the latest version Name Manager is fetched from our server.