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Deleting Excel Named Ranges

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Excel VBA: Deleting Excel Named Ranges. Delete Dead Named Ranges

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Deleting Excel Named Ranges

As most reading this page will know, Excel provides many ways to create and useNamed Rangesin Excel. However, when you have a lot of named ranges it is a tedious task to delete them all, or specific named ranges. In fact, the only way via the standard Excel interface is via Insert>Name>Define one at a time!

The 2 Excel VBA Macros below can be used to delete named ranges. Use the best suited one for your circumstance.

Delete Dead (#REF!) Excel Named Ranges

Sub DeleteDeadNames()Dim nName As Name    For Each nName In Names        If InStr(1, nName.RefersTo, "#REF!") > 0 Then            nName.Delete        End If    Next nName    End Sub

Delete Chosen Excel Named Ranges

Sub DeleteChosenNames()Dim nName As NameDim lReply As Long    For Each nName In Names        lReply = MsgBox("Delete the named range " & nName.Name _            & vbNewLine & "It refers to: " & nName.RefersTo, _            vbQuestion + vbYesNoCancel, "Ozgrid.com")                    If lReply = vbCancel Then Exit Sub        If lReply = vbYes Then nName.Delete    Next nName    End Sub

To use either of the above codes, go to Tools>Macro>Visual Basic Editor (Alt+F11) then go to Insert>Module. After pasting in the wanted code, go back to Excel proper and then to Tools>Macro>Macrosand Run the chosen macro.

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