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		adrian_b on Aug 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Excel is pretty dang cool Already Lotus 1-2-3 for MS-DOS had named ranges. As Excel was made since the beginning as a replacement for Lotus 1-2-3, I believe it also must have had named ranges at least from its version for MS Windows 3.0. IIRC, when I have first used Excel, which was the Windows 95 version, it had them.

pwinnski on Aug 12, 2022 [–]

I recall it not have named ranges initially, but I remember them being added pretty quickly. Not sure what year, but very early.

The name manager was added in Excel 2007.

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