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CharlieAJ9N
Sep 28, 2020Copper Contributor
Error message when opening an Excel 97-2003 worksheet in Excel 365
I have spreadsheets in Excel 97-2003 Worksheet format. When I try to open the file in Excel 365 I immediately get an error message: Name Conflict Name cannot be the same as a built-in name Old na...
HansVogelaar
Sep 28, 2020MVP
Newer versions of Excel reserve the name Print_Area for when you specify the area of a worksheet to be printed (Page Layout tab of the ribbon > Print Area > Set Print Area).
In older versions this name was not reserved, so you could give any range this name.
To see where the (renamed) range is, click Name Manager on the Formulas tab of the ribbon.
- CharlieAJ9NSep 28, 2020Copper Contributor
Thanks Hans for the explanation. This one caught be by surprise. I wish the error message had a much better explanation.
CharlieAJ9N