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A dialog box appears where you can enter a new name.</paragraph> 46cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 47cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 48*6a651fecSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149260" role="listitem" l10n="U">Enter a new name for the sheet and click <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph> 49cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 50cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 51*6a651fecSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149667" role="listitem" l10n="U">Alternatively, hold down the <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">Option key 52cdf0e10cSrcweir</caseinline><defaultinline>Alt key</defaultinline></switchinline> and click on any sheet name and enter the new name directly.</paragraph> 53cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/shared/00/00000099.xhp#winmanager"/> 54cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 55cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 56cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0909200810502833" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">Sheet names can contain almost any character. Some naming restrictions apply when you want to save the spreadsheet to Microsoft Excel format.</paragraph> 57cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id090920081050283" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">When saving to Microsoft Excel format, the following characters are not allowed in sheet names:</paragraph> 58cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="unordered"> 59cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 60cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id090920081050281" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">colon :</paragraph> 61cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 62cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 63cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0909200810502897" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">back slash \</paragraph> 64cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 65cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 66cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id090920081050299" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">forward slash /</paragraph> 67cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 68cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 69cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0909200810502913" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">question mark ?</paragraph> 70cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 71cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 72cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id090920081050298" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">asterisk *</paragraph> 73cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 74cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 75cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0909200810502969" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">left square bracket [</paragraph> 76cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 77cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 78cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0909200810502910" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">right square bracket ]</paragraph> 79cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 80cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 81cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0909200810502971" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">single quote ' as the first or last character of the name</paragraph> 82cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 83cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 84cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id090920081050307" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">In cell references, a sheet name has to be enclosed in single quotes ' if the name contains other characters than alphanumeric or underscore. A single quote contained within a name has to be escaped by doubling it (two single quotes). For example, you want to reference the cell A1 on a sheet with the following name:</paragraph> 85cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0909200810503071" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">This year's sheet</paragraph> 86cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0909200810503054" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">The reference must be enclosed in single quotes, and the one single quote inside the name must be doubled:</paragraph> 87cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0909200810503069" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">'This year''s sheet'.A1</paragraph> 88*6a651fecSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155444" role="paragraph" l10n="U">The name of a sheet is independent of the name of the spreadsheet. You enter the spreadsheet name when you save it for the first time as a file. The document can contain up to 256 individual sheets, which can have different names.</paragraph> 89cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="relatedtopics"> 90cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/scalc/guide/multitables.xhp#multitables"/> 91cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 92cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 93cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 94