Origin Ver. and Service Release (Select Help-->About Origin): 8.5.1SR1 Operating System: Win XP latest build Column short names should be limited to 17 characters. Why are some limited to 8 characters?
C. Peter Bengtson
Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Neurowissenschaften (IZN)
Could you please post here a sample case of the column short name which were limited to 8 characters you experienced? - so that people on the thread can be aware of, and OriginLab would be able to fix it if it's a bug.
It is a combined limitation on the workbook short name and the columns short names. The limit is ~24 characters, so if you have a long workbook short name then there are fewer characters left for the column shortnames.
We recommend that you leave the column shortnames as the default and use the Long Name column label row instead. You will then not run into any character limitation.