How to avoid name conflict error when copying a sheet in Excel Puspendu Roy Karmakar Posted on August 31, 2018 Posted in Excel Features, Excel general tips No Comments Tagged with NAME MANAGER How to avoid name conflict errors when copying a sheet in Excel. In this post, I will discuss a serious problem faced by many Excel users. Whenever we try to copy a sheet Excel sometimes shows an error. The name already exists… When you press OK to it shows again with another name and you keep pressing Enter for a long time. I try to cancel it shows a Name Conflict dialogue box. This situation somehow irritated you a lot. You may have copied the sheet after a long pressing of the Entering key. But I can show you how to avoid name conflict errors and save you valuable time. Before copying the sheet you have to press Ctrl F3 together to show the Name Manager. There you will find a huge list of names with broken link references. Select all of them by clicking on the first and clicking on the last pressing Shift. Then delete them by clicking on the Delete button. Now you can copy the sheet. It may show again but don’t worry. It will take very much lesser time than earlier, like a few seconds when you press Enter. Lesson#149: How to reduce excel file size Lesson#106: How to lookup pictures in excel See also Lesson#93: Radar chart example with Cristiano Ronaldo About Puspendu Roy Karmakar Hi! I am Puspendu. I am the founder and author of Excelabcd. I am little creative person, blogger and Excel-maniac guy. I hope you enjoy my blog. On How to, Microsoft Excel, Troubleshooting, Windows 10, Introduction:
When you choose "Yes", this message is still not lost. When you choose "No", a message windows with name "Name Conflict" that will aprrears: "Name already exists on destination sheet. Old Name:... New name:... "
You can see video guide for fix error: Name conflict in Excel How to Do: Step 1: The first, you turn off this message by: Mouse right Taskbar > Task Manager > Process tab > Right mouse Microsoft Excel > End task. Note that all Excel files you have open will be exit after Step 1 is done.
Step 2: Install and open the program XLStyles Tool (this program is only supported on Windows 10)
Step 3: Click Get File > find and select the path of the corrupted Excel file > select Remove All in Name Ranges With External References > Process File
Step 5: Select all values in the Name Manager table. and Delete (delete them).
Step 6: Completed. Please open the error excel file and check it. I'm 100% successful for sure. In addition, if you have any problems with your computer, please contact us directly through the QTitHow fanpage.
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