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Glenda16
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Sep 13, 2022

Name of columns - SharePoint

I'm having problems, every time I change the name of a column when exporting to Excel, the name of columns is not changed, the name of columns follow the name of when the columns were created.
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ganeshsanap
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Sep 14, 2022

Glenda16 I am unable to reproduce this issue from my end. I can rename the list columns before exporting list to excel and new names will be available in exported excel file:

 

While creating a column, I used name "MyCustomCol" and then I renamed it to "My Custom Column". Here's how it looks after excel export: 

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ganeshsanap
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Sep 14, 2022

ganeshsanap Now I renamed it to just "My Column" and it changed name again in excel file: 

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