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Copper Contributor

May 10, 2018

O365 SharePoint List Column Names Corrupted

While trying to import a list into Power BI, I discovered that most of the column names in one of the lists in one of our SharePoint team sites are corrupted. The display names are intact, it's the i...

MVP

Jun 20, 2019

Bill Kuhn How are you adding the columns? Are you using Quick Edit view and using the + symbol? If so, this would generate the internal columns as you describe.

Bill Kuhn

Copper Contributor

Jul 09, 2019

Beau Cameron Ahhhh...that was it. I learn something new everyday, this one just happened to be in the "not fun" learning category.

p4patricia
Copper Contributor
Dec 10, 2020
Bill Kuhn ; Lori Hanley Tausif_Jamkhandi Beau Cameron

Well, from October 2018 to December 2020 and this has still not been fixed. I have just moved over to Office 365 from SharePoint on-Premise so was not aware of this problem until I created a list with 1,984 items! Tried to create a power automate workflow and a power BI report and now from reading your posts (Thank YOU) I have to create a new column and copy everything over into it.

When is Microsoft going to get their systems sorted!!