Question

The first column of my spreadsheet is a unique key (data wise, nothing to do with excel). Another of my columns contains links to other rows (to that row’s unique key). When I insert these hyperlinks, I need to point to ‘defined names’ since the row order will change over time.

I don’t want to have to create the defined name every time I insert a new row. Is there a way to automatically define a column’s text as the ‘defined name’?

I hope this is clear.

Many thanks.

Answer 1

Got it. Mike R. put me on the right track. Thanks.

Note the need to remove non alphanumeric characters for names. Also, duplicating a name just overwrites the old reference.

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)     If (Target.Column = 1 And Target.Text <> '' And Target.Cells.Count = 1) Then         ThisWorkbook.Names.Add _             Name:=StripChar(Target.Text), _             RefersTo:=Target, _             Visible:=True     End If End Sub  Function StripChar(s As String) As String     With CreateObject('vbscript.regexp')         .Global = True         .ignorecase = True         .Pattern = '[^\dA-Z]'         StripChar = .Replace(s, '')     End With End Function