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Sample Macro to Retrieve Defined Name of the ActiveCell

Article ID: 125960

Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006

Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
Microsoft Excel 5.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q125960

SUMMARY

This article contains a sample Visual Basic for Applications macro that will retrives the name defined for the active cell.

When you attempt to obtain the defined name from the active cell, you will need to use the Name object with the Name property.

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Sample Visual Basic Procedure

To retrieve the defined name that has been applied to a range of cells, you must use the Name property of the name object.

The following Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications procedure assigns the defined name of a cell to a variable and displays this name in a message box.

   Sub ShowName()
      Dim Cell_Name As String
 
      Cell_Name = ActiveCell.Name.Name
      MsgBox Cell_Name
 
   End Sub

REFERENCES

For more information about the Name object or property, choose Contents from the Help menu. Choose Programming with Visual Basic, then select the Search button and type:

Name

Select the desired topic and choose the Go To button.

For additional information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

163435 VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications

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