Translations:Manual:Using spreadsheets/23/en

You might wonder why we had to use "Spreadsheet001" instead of "Input" in the expression above. This is because each object, in a FreeCAD document, has an internal name, which is unique in the document, and a label, which is what appears in the tree view. If you uncheck the relevant option in the preferences window, FreeCAD will allow you to give the same label to more than one object. This is why all operations that must identify an object uniquely, will use the internal name instead of the label, which could designate more than one object. The easiest way to know the internal name of an object is by keeping the selection panel (menu bar View → Panels) open, it will always indicate the internal name of a selected object: