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# Considerations for Renaming Tab and Field Labels

Before renaming standard and custom tabs and fields, learn how those changes affect your users.

### Required Editions

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          <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d70960e73 ">To rename tab and field labels:</td>

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          <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d70960e73 ">To reset renamed tabs:</td>

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Most standard tabs and objects can be renamed but not all. For example, the Forecasts tab isn’t available for renaming. From Setup, enter Rename Tabs and Labels in the Quick Find box, then select **Rename Tabs and Labels** to view a list of the tabs and objects you can rename.

- The renamed labels appear on all user pages in Salesforce, including Personal Setup. In Lightning Experience, all Lightning-based pages in the Setup area use the renamed labels. However, Salesforce Classic Setup pages, whether they're in Salesforce Classic or embedded in a Lightning Experience Setup page, use the default, original labels.
- Some standard fields, such as Created By and Last Modified By, are purposely omitted from renaming because they track system information.
- When you rename a tab or an object, you can’t use the name of another standard tab, custom object, external object, or custom tab.
- When you rename a tab, a field, or an object, you can’t use include these characters: `#`, `$`, `%`, `;`, `<`, `=`, `>`, `[`, `]`, `^`, `` ` ``, `|`, and `~`.
- After renaming tabs, objects, or fields, check the following additional items to determine which items need manual updates:
    - Review all list view names. Built-in list views where you haven’t previously modified the list view name, such as All Accounts, automatically update to use the new name. Built-in list views where you’ve previously modified the list view name and user-created list views continue to show the original object name until you change them manually.
    - Check standard report names and descriptions for the objects you renamed.
    - Update the titles and descriptions of any email templates that contain the original object or field name.
    - Manually change any other items you customized with the new object or field name. For example, change any custom fields, page layouts, and record types that contain the original tab or field name.
- Connect Offline, the Outlook integration, the Gmail integration, and Salesforce for Outlook use your new names.
- When you rename custom tabs for custom objects, the tab label normally appears in the requested language. If there’s no translation for the requested language, the tab label appears in the default language of the custom object. The custom object default language is the default language of the org when the object was created.
- If you have renamed tabs, objects, or fields, you can also replace Salesforce Help with another URL. Users can view this URL whenever they click any context-sensitive help link on an end-user page or within their personal settings. After you replace the help, the Help & Training link at the top of every page and all Setup pages will continue to display Salesforce Help.
- To rename custom object labels without changing all of the custom object’s original labels, edit the labels from **Setup** | **Rename Tabs and Labels**.
- In Hebrew, we recommend keeping tab renaming to a minimum because variable gender in verbs isn’t supported and verbs can lose gender agreement.

#### See Also

- [Rename Object, Tab, and Field Labels](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.customize_rename.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "You can change the name of almost any object, field, or tab in Salesforce. This simple adjustment lets you continue using the terminology your users already know and helps them transition to using Salesforce. However, Salesforce Help and most pages in Setup always display the original names for standard objects, fields, and tabs.")