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A dialog box appears where you can enter a new name.</paragraph> 46</listitem> 47<listitem> 48<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> 49</listitem> 50<listitem> 51<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149667" role="listitem" l10n="U">Alternatively, hold down the <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">Option key 52</caseinline><defaultinline>Alt key</defaultinline></switchinline> and click on any sheet name and enter the new name directly.</paragraph> 53<embed href="text/shared/00/00000099.xhp#winmanager"/> 54</listitem> 55</list> 56<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> 57<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> 58<list type="unordered"> 59<listitem> 60<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id090920081050281" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">colon :</paragraph> 61</listitem> 62<listitem> 63<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0909200810502897" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">back slash \</paragraph> 64</listitem> 65<listitem> 66<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id090920081050299" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">forward slash /</paragraph> 67</listitem> 68<listitem> 69<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0909200810502913" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">question mark ?</paragraph> 70</listitem> 71<listitem> 72<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id090920081050298" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">asterisk *</paragraph> 73</listitem> 74<listitem> 75<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0909200810502969" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">left square bracket [</paragraph> 76</listitem> 77<listitem> 78<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0909200810502910" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">right square bracket ]</paragraph> 79</listitem> 80<listitem> 81<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0909200810502971" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">single quote ' as the first or last character of the name</paragraph> 82</listitem> 83</list> 84<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> 85<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0909200810503071" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">This year's sheet</paragraph> 86<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> 87<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0909200810503069" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">'This year''s sheet'.A1</paragraph> 88<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> 89<section id="relatedtopics"> 90<embed href="text/scalc/guide/multitables.xhp#multitables"/> 91</section> 92</body> 93</helpdocument> 94