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    Mario Nelaj on 14 Feb 2017 04:45:43

    It would be great if we could change columns labels/names in the standard visuals (Table & Matrixes mainly). In our company we have a data warehouse build to support the PowerBI tabular model with the data. The field names in the data model are not the most intuitive to our PowerBI End User. It could be great if we could change the way the field labels are shown in our tables to be more intuitive and meaningful without needing to change the field names in the data model.

    Administrator on 06 Jul 2017 13:05:17

    With today's release, you can now rename any field within a chart or table! Learn more in our blog post: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/blog/power-bi-desktop-july-feature-summary-2/#rename

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    2255dddd 642c-4ace-9bf5-9ef966cecc06 on 05 Jul 2020 22:52:49

    RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

    Yaaaayyy!! this is awesome!

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    bad2d11a b2dd-484e-80d0-8ce6100fd992 on 05 Jul 2020 22:52:46

    RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

    Is this going out on the next version?

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    34b4779f 0c99-4875-9606-52ca24ba1886 on 05 Jul 2020 22:52:42

    RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

    Well, but there is easy workaround for this. Just hide Column names and put those names as one Title. For example Title=". Price Quantity".

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    9be0211d 7e3a-4124-9ef8-85783e6ec77d on 05 Jul 2020 22:52:42

    RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

    There is a huge need for this

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    bea507c3 2f05-4f46-aff6-1812dcf2be0e on 05 Jul 2020 22:52:28

    RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

    Excellent idea

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    e146a7aa 1fa2-4e0f-8191-6d96892a4c9b on 05 Jul 2020 22:52:28

    RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

    Would be very useful for my reports containing large tables!

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    d4b745b7 1506-408d-a0fe-172c55b79c54 on 05 Jul 2020 22:51:59

    RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

    I would like to see an "Alias" tagged to the field or measure as a piece of Metadata, with the option to use the Alias as the field used in any type of visualization. In that way, you could retain the original field name, but substitute the alias for any reporting.

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    175829a3 6c45-4901-bd72-f1a581eeec88 on 05 Jul 2020 22:51:53

    RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

    I signed up just to make this suggestion, and great to see others on board with this as well. We have the same problem. The data model names aren't always the most intuitive for our end users.

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    55541d84 a65b-49cf-8561-48ecd148cd27 on 05 Jul 2020 22:51:29

    RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

    Need this badly, please oh please oh Microsoft!

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    ee906395 008a-4980-92ec-03f3a912aeb8 on 05 Jul 2020 22:51:28

    RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

    great, this is really needed. is this coming in July release?