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"Getting Name" bug on my worksheet
One of the cells in my worksheet has a "Getting Name" bug on my worksheet - I have no idea what this is referring to - I've never seen this in my 40-years of using Excel - there are no Range Names no...
I've got the same. It's not associated with an actual cell, it's just a floating icon with a little "person" icon, and when I hover over it, it expands and says "Getting name...". It wasn't there when I was editing this file this morning. I've come back from work and voila... I have the same little floating icon. I've also never seen this before.
I'm using Desktop Win11 Excel build 2811:
- This is my own file, stored on my own OneDrive. It's not shared, there are no other users, so it's not an multi-user indicator of another user.
- The cells anywhere near the icon don't have any formula.
- I have zero Office plugins/extensions.
- It doesn't matter which cell is selected.
- There are no "Named Ranges" on this sheet, or in the Workbook.
- There are no linked-lists or as far as I can tell, anything at all that has a "Name".
Could it be that you have another session open somewhere? The “ghost” could be you, where you left another session of excel running, whether web or teams view maybe?
