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Is "Title" a reserved word in Microsoft List?
wm-thompson you can't rename any column to "Title" . Even when you rename a column the internal name within SharePoint stays the same. So a column renamed to something else will still have the internal name of "Title".
Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User.
Principal Consultant, SharePoint and Power Platform WSP Global (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)
Rob_Elliott Somehow, and I don't know how, my boss created a Microsoft List where EmpID was used as the Title of the Microsoft List. That first screen shot is from that Microsoft List. Adjacent to that column was a column where the display name was, somehow, "Title" whilst it did not behave as if it was the actual (hidden name) Title. I know that the EmpID was the proverbial Title of the List because, as the screen shot shows, the contents of the list are bold.
You can say that a List cannot have any column named TItle, without it functioning as the Title column, but somehow my boss did it before I got hired.
wm-thompson I've just tested this and renamed the Title column to EmpID. The internal name of the column is still Title.
I then created a new column named Title which it accepted. The internal name of that column is showing as Title0.
So you need to check the internal names. Go to list settings, hover over the column and it will display the internal name after field=. Or edit the column and the internal will be shown in the address bar after field=.
Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User.
Principal Consultant, SharePoint and Power Platform WSP Global (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)This article will help you to find the internal name of SharePoint list columns as suggested by Rob_Elliott: How to find the Internal name of columns in SharePoint Online?
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