How to change the name of the column headers in Google Sheets

In Google Sheets, the column headers are named A, B, C, and so on by default. Some users want to change the names of the column headers to something more meaningful. Unfortunately, Google Sheets does not allow the header names to be changed.

Instead, to have meaningful column header names, you can do the following.

1. Click in the first row of the worksheet and insert a new row above that first row.

• How to add or remove a cell, column, or row in Google Sheets.

2. In the inserted row, enter the preferred name for each column.
3. To make the row of column names more noticeable, you could increase the text size, make the text bold, or add background color to the cells in that row.