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Find the internal name for a SharePoint column

There doesn't seem to be a "nice" way in SharePoint to find the internal name for a SharePoint column.

The safest way we can recommend is this: Go to "List settings" and click the column you are interested in, then in the address bar the internal name is the "Field" parameter - see screenshots below.

Beware: in some cases underscores are displayed as "%5F" in the Field parameter, but you still need to use the "_" character in the internal name, not the escaped "%5F". e.g. the correct internal name for Field=First%5FName is First_Name