We've now seen three ways

we can create named ranges. But what if we make a mistake, or

we need to go and update a named range? Well fortunately, we have a great tool to
help us, and it's called the Name Manager. Once again, it can be found on the
Formulas tab in the Defined Names group. And here's a big button, Name Manager. Now
sorry to the Excel for Mac users. You don't have this tool. But if you click Define
Name, it gives
you a slightly simplified version. I'm going to click on Name Manager,
and this opens up my Name Manager. Having a quick look, we can see
it lists all of our named ranges, the cells they refer to,
some of the values, and even the scope. Now if you're finding
it hard to see things, you can actually modify this dialog. First of all,
you can make it a little bigger. So if you come to the bottom-right
hand corner and hover til you get that doubled-headed white arrow, click and drag
and make it to a size of your choosing. You can also adjust your column widths. So
for example, if I need this
Value column to be a bit wider, just come between the Values and
the Refers To, and click and drag. And now I can actually
see more of the Values. So feel free to modify that to your needs. There's also a
little button on
the right called the filter button which will allow you to filter to
see only certain named ranges. For example, you might only want to see one scope
to this worksheet or names with errors. So you have that option as well.
Predominantly though, the name manager
is here to allow you to delete, edit and even create new named ranges. Let's see
how we will go about doing this. Now in my enthusiasm, I have created two employee
ID named ranges that
refer to the identical range. Excel doesn't mind at all but as a user, I'm going to
run into problems,
I'm going to get confused. So it's a better idea to only
give a single name to each range. So to get rid of one of these I'm going to
click on the first one and then just click the Delete button, Excel double checks,
are you sure, please be sure. If that name is being used
in a calculation somewhere, that calculation is going to break. It's not going to
replace the name
with the cell references, it's just going to throw out a name error. So, make sure
that you're not deleting
something that's currently in use, I am sure, I'm going to press OK,
and it's gone. I'm now thinking that actually
I deleted the wrong one that was probably a better name. So I'd like to rename this
and Emp_ID. Now you can either double click on it or
single click and press the Edit button and
this opens up the Edit Name dialogue. First of all I can change the Name, so I'm
just going to click in between Emp and
ID and type an underscore. I can also change the range. So if I have added new row
to
my HR database I can come and make that A39, easy. What I can't change though is
the scope,
and this is something we looked
at in the last video. Quite important to get
that right up front. Everything is good now I'm going to
click OK, and back to my Name Manager. Finally, if you want to, you can even
create a new named range in here. So if I click the New button, it automatically
pick some of the cells I
currently have selected in the workbook. I can give it a name. I could adjust the
range if I want to. Because it's new, I can change the scope. Click OK and you're
away. I don't need this range, so
I'm just going to click Cancel, and then I'm done managing my names so
I'm going to click the Close button. So just to recap, the name Manager tool can be
found on the formulas tool
bar in the defined names group. Once we start working with name ranges, we can
easily use this tool to edit,
update and audit our named ranges.