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Name Manager: Range names made easy
Description
If you are in need of a utility to manage defined names in your Excel models, 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 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016 V4.3 (Build 657, Oct 31, 2017, downloaded: 94,390 times)
Name Manager for Excel 97, 2000, XP and 2003 V4.3 (Build 655, Dec 13, 2016 Downloaded: 123,103 times)
Tip: Excel 97 users can download Name Manager version 3.2 below if they experience compile errors.
Solving Compile errors related to Name Manager
Some users get a compile error during load of Name Manager: "Compile Error in hidden module, fxlNameManager".
This error is mostly resolved by:
Excel 2003: open Excel and select Help, detect and repair from the menu.
Excel 2007/2010/2013: Open Office Setup from Control Panel, Programs and do a
repair of the Office installation.
After doing so, Name Manager should work as expected.
New in this version (4.3):
- Improved renaming rangenames in VBA code
- Updated German translations
- Fixed names with structured table references being reported as error names
- The Name Manager's VBA toolbar's visible status is now remembered between sessions.
- Rename also renames in VBA when you use short-hand code like [TheName].
- 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, 2010 and 2013
- Fixed issue with renaming names in chart series formula
- Fixed bug regarding updating LinkedCell property when renaming names
- Fixed issue with { and } characters in sheetnames
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
- Italian
- Russian
- 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: 10,241 times) is still available!
Mac users, please note : version 4.2 does not work in the Mac environment, due to the use of Windows API calls. For your convenience, Name Manager 2.3 (Downloaded: 9,372 times) is still available. Note that unfortunately NM is NOT compatible with Office 2016 for Mac.
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 929 in total (Show All Comments):Comment by: Lee Wylie (3/13/2018 5:01:48 PM)
Looking forward to getting the most out of it in my analysis work, thank you!
Comment by: Michael (3/15/2018 4:23:10 PM)
Can you suggest what I should do to locate it
thanks
Michael
Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (3/15/2018 5:12:47 PM)
have you tried unblocking the add-in file in Windows as describered here:
http://www.jkp-ads.com/Articles/excel-add-ins-fail-to-load.asp
Comment by: Beat Bucher (4/12/2018 4:03:47 PM)
I've known NameManger for years as I used to have it already in Excel 2003 & up.. As I had switched laptop, I didn't re-install it and remembered about it the day I had to work with an Excel workbook with several name range and tables defined..
Somehow, the latest release of NM doesn't recognize the 'Tables' in Excel... is it me or was that never part of NM ?
I'm using Excel 2016 right now & the latest build of NM.
Thanks for your input..
Appreciate your support.
Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (4/12/2018 4:38:10 PM)
The FastExcel version of Name Manager does recognize table names. you can also download my free table tools add-in from my download page:
http://www.jkp-ads.com/Articles/Excel2007Tables.asp#TableTools
Comment by: Beat BUCHER (4/12/2018 4:42:58 PM)
I know Frederic Le Guen as a fellow MVP :-).
Will download the table add-on and give it a look to!
Thanks a lot for the quick reply.
Comment by: Tom Bates (6/12/2018 10:01:57 PM)
Now, I wish you would write a tool for managing conditional formats. Excel versions 2007 and up have a bug that wildly replicates formats, making the spreadsheet slower and slower. The user interface is poor compared to other areas of Excel and makes it difficult to recover some sanity in the list.
Thanks
Tom
Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (6/13/2018 8:11:35 AM)
Thanks. I agree the CF UI is terrible and so does MSFT.
They just haven't prioritized it high enough to work on it :-)
I did once start on a tool that removes duplicated CF rules. Get in touch and I'll see if I can dig it up. Email address @ the bottom.
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