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                 Issue #|97930
                 Summary|Entering and editing range names (variables) is frustr
                        |ating
               Component|Spreadsheet
                 Version|OOO300m9
                Platform|PC
                     URL|
              OS/Version|Windows XP
                  Status|UNCONFIRMED
       Status whiteboard|
                Keywords|
              Resolution|
              Issue type|ENHANCEMENT
                Priority|P3
            Subcomponent|ui
             Assigned to|spreadsheet
             Reported by|whitephoenix





------- Additional comments from [email protected] Sat Jan 10 
15:39:08 +0000 2009 -------
I wanted to name a cell in a spreadsheet that contains a constant that I am
using by changing the name in the name box. I tried to name it what I usually
would, but it kept going to another cell or it wouldn’t rename the cell.
Finally, I realized that the cell that it kept going to was in the same relative
location to the spreadsheet I was working in as another variable from a
different spreadsheet that has the same name.

There is no reason that I can think of for this behavior. A person should be
able to use the same variable name in any spreadsheet without having to have the
variable always in the same location. The variable in one spreadsheet has
nothing to do with the other.

As it turned out, the spreadsheet named the wrong cell. I couldn’t undo the name
change. I tried deleting the variable name and found it wouldn’t go away. The
only way I could get rid of it was to close the program without saving. If there
is a dialog box (outside of the drop-down menu for the name box) that shows a
list of named cells/ranges in the spreadsheet so that you can organize them *for
that spreadsheet* I cannot find it.

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