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         <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Renaming Sheets</title>
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      <bookmark_value>sheet tabs;renaming</bookmark_value>
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      <bookmark_value>names; sheets</bookmark_value>
</bookmark><comment>mw made "renaming sheets" a two level entry.</comment>
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                 oldref="11"><variable id="rename_table"><link href="text/scalc/guide/rename_table.xhp" name="Renaming Sheets">Renaming Sheets</link>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155131" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="12">Click the name of the sheet that you want to change.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3146976" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="13">Open the context menu and choose the <emph>Rename</emph> command. A dialog box appears where you can enter a new name.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149260" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="15">Enter a new name for the sheet and click <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149667" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="27">Alternatively, hold down the <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">Option key
</caseinline><defaultinline>Alt key</defaultinline></switchinline> and click on any sheet name and enter the new name directly.</paragraph>
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      <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>
      <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>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0909200810502971" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">single quote ' as the first or last character of the name</paragraph>
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      <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>
      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0909200810503071" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">This year's sheet</paragraph>
      <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>
      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0909200810503069" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">'This year''s sheet'.A1</paragraph>
      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155444" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="16">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>
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