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How to easily edit name range and the scope in Excel?

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A workbook often contains multiple named ranges, and sometimes, after updating data, you may need to edit these ranges and adjust their scopes, as shown in the screenshot below. How can you quickly accomplish this in Excel?

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Edit name range with Name Manager

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Edit name range with Name Manager

In Excel, you can go to the Name Manager dialog to edit and change the range scope.

1. Click Formulas > Name Manager. See screenshot:

A screenshot showing the Name Manager option in the Formulas tab

2. Then in the Name Manager box, select the name range you want to edit from the list, and click Edit button. See screenshot:

A screenshot of the Name Manager dialog box

3. Then in the Edit Name dialog, you can reedit the Name, and reselect the range scope in the Refers to section. See screenshot:

A screenshot showing the Edit Name dialog box

4. Click OK. The name range has been successfully edited. And if you want to edit other name ranges, just repeat above steps to edit them one by one.

And after finishing editing name ranges, please close the Name Manager dialog.

Edit name range with Kutools for Excel

If you have Kutools for Excel – a handy Excel add-in, you can easily edit name range and change range scope.

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1. Click Kutools > Navigation, and click Name Manager An icon showing the Name Manager option in Kutools to go to the Name Manager pane. See screenshot:

2. Then you can see all the name ranges in the right section, and you can click at the name range to toggle to the name range, and then go to the below section to edit the name and scrope as you need, then click An icon to save changes in Kutools to save the change. See screenshot:

A screenshot of Kutools for Excel Name Manager pane showing options to edit name range and scope

With Kutools for Excel’s Navigation, and you can list all name ranges, workbooks, sheets, and find and replace value across workbooks and so on. Click here to know more.

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