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KyleWilliamsBMI

Export to Excel - Measure Name Displayed instead of Friendly Name

Submitted by Advocate II on ‎06-05-2018 01:22 PM

When exporting from a Table in Power BI to Excel, the measure name is returned in the Excel table column header, instead of the friendly name of the column the end user sees in the Power BI report.   However, if you export to csv, the friendly name is returned.  Any way the friendly name could be returned when exporting to Excel? Seems like this might be an oversight, since the measure isn't actually exported to the Excel table, just the value...

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asableski
New Member
‎08-08-2022 02:50 AM

I am also having this issue. Using Power BI RS version May 22. Is there any resolution planned? CSV displays friendly name but Excel does not. 

AnnaLewandowska
New Member
‎08-08-2024 03:20 AM

Hi,

check if in the visual you don't have more than one column with the same name. If so, in the excel table it displays the original column name from the model because you can't have more than one column with the same name.

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