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NO NAME MANAGER IN EXCEL ONLINE
lorenzocs Let's say I want to name the range A1:A20 "myNamedRange"
Step 1: Formula ribbon, Define Name
Step 2: Enter the name you want to use, click in the "Select the range......" field.
Step 3: Click on the "collapse"-button (far right in the "Select the range....." field) and select the range to be named (or directly write the reference of the range as indicated). Press OK.
Step 4: Select A1:A20. In the Name box, you can now see the name given to that specific range.
Step 5: In the Define Name window, you can now see the named range that you just created. Edit (change name and/reference) or Delete (the minus sign) or Create a new one (the plus sign).
Short answer is to use Excel 365 desktop on Windows. All other versions (Excel for web, Excel on Mac, Excel mobile, etc) have limited functionality compare to it.
Excel for web is developed quite fast, perhaps this functionality will be available as well relatively in a short while.
- A number of companies, small and large, no longer want users to store data on their PCs. They want it all in the cloud, for very good reasons: when an employee leaves the company, migrating their data to someone else is easy; when an employee is OOO, allowing others to access the latest data is easy; when you want to revert to an earlier version, this is very easy (provided your cloud provider enables this - flee from any who doesn't).
So recommending to use a desktop version in the age of Internet is akin to saying that Microsoft is so stuck in the 80s (last millenium) that it will never evolve. I hope this isn's true.These are different things. I also keep all my data on the cloud, but prefer to use desktop client working with located on the cloud files.
In the age of internet Desktop client is quite good integrated with the cloud, in general local storage could be needed only to work with temporary files. However, mapping is more reliable.
- Sergei is apparently correct. One must not use the Excel for Android version 1.0.1, which provides no ability to name cells. Nor does it allow you to edit or use names in your formulas. It does allow already existing names to work, but no other functionality is offered.
Jason. Why is there no "Name Manager" (GESTIONE NOMI in Italian) in the Excel version for macOS on the FORMULAS tab?
On Windows, I can edit, delete cell names, on Mac it is not possible.
1 Photo: MacOS
2 Photo: Windows
lorenzocs There is no Name Manager in MacOs. It's what you show in your picture "Define Name" (see picture) where you add, delete and edit named ranges/formulae. But there is nothing that compares to the Name Manager in the Windows version.
Riny_van_Eekelen My excel for mac version 16.58 does have it, but my colleague with the same version of excel does not. Any insights?
Sorry, I have no experience with Excel for Mac, perhaps Riny_van_Eekelen could clarify.
