Please don't waste everyone's time by multi-posting.

Most people look at all the groups but not necessarily in the same order.
You now have two similar answers in two dfferent groups.


"jonwyn" <jonwyn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> aargh...All I want to do is rename an open sheet so that it reads English9
> rather than Sheet 1....easy enough, one would think. I right click on the
> tab, type in the text. First time I did this, it was renamed as
> .xls]English9. I tried again as I didn't like the .xls] in front of my
> chosen title. Now I am stuck. The message I get states that I have
> entered
> an invalid name, that it must be 31 characteres or less, certain forbidden
> symbols, etc. I can't save the spreadsheet, or work on it, until I can
> resolve the name issue--It won't let me do anything. please help