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It is not a huge "issue" but it is an "issue" because it is abnormal.  Sure there are plenty of renaming work-arounds but it is at least worth looking into when a piece of software behaves in an unexpected way.  If Excel started numbering the rows 0,2,3,4,5,6,7 that would lead me to wonder if something else was off. 

On a practical level, I have a lesson where I am teaching students to think through parametric dimensions and everything is numbered step by step with screen shots to help them through it.  It took about an hour to renumber the assignent and redo the screen shots to skip d1 and that was time that could have been spent on something better.

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wfbbob wrote:

  It took about an hour to renumber the assignent and redo the screen shots to skip d1 and that was time that could have been spent on something better.

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I spend a few minutes showing my students how the "d number" depends on the order they create their dimensions compared to the order I created the dimensions and how many mistakes they (or I) made and deleted and replaced dimensions.

All the work is done in so many different ways (to get to same end results) that I would pull my hair out if I had to worry about a particular d assignment.  If I'm worried about a variable name - I name it myself.  Moving on.......