如何在Excel中显示命名范围内的名称？

Question

I accidentally dicovered that Excel 2010 can automatically display the names of named regions over them as some kind of an overlay layer:

Based on my findings this occurs if two conditions are met:

• the view zoom level is not greater than 39%
• the name defines a range that is bigger than a single cell (but is still a single area)

Did you know this? Is this a bug or a feature?

How could I intentionally turn on this feature at possibly any zoom level?

Answer 1

Interesting result; I found so little on it that your post was on the first page of Bing's search results. It seems per here: http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/119051-dont-display-range-name-when-zooming.html that even though there is a command to make that name not appear when zoomed below 40%, there does not seem to be a command to change the threshold from 40% to something else.

You could perhaps use VBA code to move translucent word art shapes to align with the top left cell in any named range, but seems like a lot of work unless you have a specific payoff in mind.

Answer 2

This post mentioned by @Grade was trying to remove the named watermark (attempting to coin a term here), but had only slight success with this macro:

Sub Hide_Names() 
Dim iName As Name 

For Each iName In ThisWorkbook.Names 
    iName.Visible = False 
Next iName 
End Sub

This thread here (same forum) from 2002 was trying to answer your question, but go no answers... which means this feature was in Excel 2000 and is still poorly documented.

I just searched through all the Excel objects and Interop libraries for name , zoom , and watermark and found nothing resembling this feature. Hopefully someone smarter can shed some light, but I think your answer is simply "no."