yep:
that looks like a bug as range names cannot have spaces.

can you select it from the dropdown?

if so you have a good chance that
the english name can be used in code....and only the "local" name is a
problem..

Try
?Range("Database").address
?Names("Database").namelocal


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Luis Verme wrote :

> Hi:
> In Excel 2003 in Spanish version, when I open a file with "dbf"
> extension, Excel assigns by default a name to the range which is
> "Base de Datos". When I try to select this name, a message appears
> saying there´s an error with the name. Investigating, I saw that the
> range names must not have blank apaces between the words, so the
> default name must be "Base_de_Datos" I think this is a bug in the
> Spanish version of Excel. In the Portuguese version the default name
> is "Banco_de_dados". I use dbf files in Excel to work with Pivot
> Tables.
>
> Any suggestions
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Luis Verme