Importing data - 1st row (names) not correctly

[Susie Sonnenschein]

Hello,
I want to import an excel spredsheet and use the first row as the name of the variable.
For the first few this works, and then stata uses "O", "P", "Q", "R"....(Excel Column name) and then the correct names are diplayed for the following...
I have named every column individually - why is that?

Thanks for your help - I really appreciate it!
Susie

[William Lisowski]

Most likely the contents of the first row for the columns in question cannot be used as variable names - either they are too long, don't follow the rules for allowable characters, or there is an earlier column with the given name.

[Susie Sonnenschein]

Thanks! This helped!