Report errors for using Excel 4.0 macro function names as defined names

[SergeiStPete]

There are some names which we can't use in AFE (Table, Group, Consolidate, etc.) but documentation says nothing about that, at least I didn't find. It's worth to mention, if not list of such names when the rule.

[jack-williams]

Do you mean in the case where we already have a table defined (say Table1) and we try to define a new name in AFE called Table1?

[SergeiStPete]

Nope, I mean

Table=LAMBDA(x, x+1); Group=LAMBDA(x, x+1); Consolidate=LAMBDA(x, x+1);

in empty workbook

[SergeiStPete]

It looks like all Excel 4.0 macro function names

[jack-williams]

Ah I see. It appears those names are fine to have when they refer to values such as 10, but it does not work when they refer to LAMBDA.

Does the built-in name manager give warnings here?

[SergeiStPete]

They are synced with Name Manager, but if we enter in cell something like =Group(2) alert appears "That function isn't valid"

[SergeiStPete]

And yes, they don't work with lambdas only, e.g.

Group = SUM(Sheet1!a1:a10);

works

[SergeiStPete]

@jack-williams , now it doesn't sync if we use reserved name function, but the message is not very informative. For

beep = lambda(x,y,x+y); itWorks = LAMBDA(x,y, (beep)(x,y) ); doesntWork = LAMBDA(x,y, beep(x,y));

we have "Sync names with Excel name manager. failed: The argument is invalid or missing or has an incorrect format." If we have long enough code it's not clear where exactly is an error (doesntWork function in this case) and what is wrong, especially if you don't know about reserved function names.