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Column Headings in Excel Report Layouts

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Hi:

If you use Excel's "FILTER" function, when designing reports using the new Excel Report Layouts feature, the "ugly" column headers (titles) are used.

Is there an easy workaround allowing for typing your own column headers?

Thanks!

John

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    Inge M. Bruvik Profile Picture
    1,165 Moderator on at

    The idea is that you should keep the data sheet unchanged and build your layout by referring to the data in the presentation sheet.

    In the presentation sheet you can name the columns as you like.

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    Working with Excel Layouts - Business Central | Microsoft Learn

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    YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    99,086 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi, if you mean column header in your report, you can use structured references with Excel tables.

    More details:

    https://yzhums.com/23873/

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    And if you are not satisfied with the column names in Data, insert a sheet and enter '=Data', so that the values in Data, except the header, will be automatically saved to the new sheet, and then you can insert another row and add a new header.

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    Hope this can give you some hints.

    Thanks.

    ZHU

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