Quickly Create Named Ranges in Excel

Quickly Create Named Ranges in Excel

In an Excel workbook you might have a worksheet that contains several lists that you use as the source for data validation dropdown lists. For example, this worksheet has a list of countries, and lists of regions within those countries.

If each list has a heading, you can quickly create named ranges from the lists.

Create the First Named Range

Select the heading and the items in the first list that you want to name.

On Excel’s Ribbon, click the Formulas tab

In the Defined Names group, click Create from Selection

(Note: In Excel 2003 and earlier versions, click Insert > Name > Create)

In the Create Names dialog box, add a check mark to Top row, remove any other check marks, then click OK.

Name the Remaining Ranges

To name the next range, select its heading and items

On the keyboard, press the F4 key.

Repeat for all the remaining ranges.

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