PHPExcel How to set the cell name?

Question

Normally in excel you can give a specific name to the cells. How can this be done in phpexcel?

Answer 1

Section 4.6.38 of the Developer documentation describes how to do this: the section entitled "Define a named range"

$objPHPExcel->addNamedRange(
    new PHPExcel_NamedRange('PersonFN', $objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet(), 'B1') 
);