# Exporting Lists - Setting our own default columns **URL:** \ **Category:** HubSpot Ideas\ **Tags:** segments\ **Created:** [August 4, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/exporting-lists-setting-our-own-default-columns/23774 "2020-08-04T20:07:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![luellengiera](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/luellengiera/32/1529_2.png) [@luellengiera](https://community.hubspot.com/u/luellengiera)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/exporting-lists-setting-our-own-default-columns/23774/1 "2020-08-04T20:07:53Z")
We export similar types of data regularly. We have to remove the default properties HubSpot has set and select our own when importing lists each time. It is tedious when exporting several lists in a row. It’s common that we don’t need to export “Companies” properties at all, so wish we could turn that off. Would be great if we could set our own default properties and/or save versions of export settings that we use often. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Walls](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/walls/32/39641_2.png) [@Walls](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Walls)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/exporting-lists-setting-our-own-default-columns/23774/2 "2020-08-18T19:46:08Z")
Yes! The ability to set our own defaults for exports would save me millions of minutes each week! 🙂 (Okay, maybe not millions, but lots!) ---
**Author:** ![SCramptonSmith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@SCramptonSmith](https://community.hubspot.com/u/SCramptonSmith)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/exporting-lists-setting-our-own-default-columns/23774/3 "2022-02-01T17:19:46Z")
We would absolutely love this ‘default column’ functionality too. We are wasting a lot of time selecting and deselecting columns to export from lists. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![ABoulter2](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/aboulter2/32/27785_2.png) [@ABoulter2](https://community.hubspot.com/u/ABoulter2)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 3:18am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/exporting-lists-setting-our-own-default-columns/23774/4 "2022-04-27T03:18:57Z")
This is a great idea! ---
**Author:** ![BVT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df788c/32.png) [@BVT](https://community.hubspot.com/u/BVT)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 3:20am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/exporting-lists-setting-our-own-default-columns/23774/5 "2022-04-27T03:20:39Z")
I would absolutely love this. Additionally, it’s crucial for me that the columns are in the same order every time, so the ability to set the default properties and the order for their display would be incredibly helpful. ---
**Author:** ![HMcKenzie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3be4f8/32.png) [@HMcKenzie](https://community.hubspot.com/u/HMcKenzie)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/exporting-lists-setting-our-own-default-columns/23774/6 "2022-09-19T15:23:17Z")
This would be a great feature to have in HubSpot! ---
**Author:** ![Neil-Aus](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/neil-aus/32/33328_2.png) [@Neil-Aus](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Neil-Aus)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 5:01am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/exporting-lists-setting-our-own-default-columns/23774/7 "2024-02-29T05:01:25Z")
Why is this still not implemented? It’s been years. Anyone using HubSpot for offline marketing needs this. Having to choose which of the 350-odd columns I want to keep in my list, every time I export it, is torturous. Please implement. ---
**Author:** ![msinon\_digi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b77776/32.png) [@msinon\_digi](https://community.hubspot.com/u/msinon_digi)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2024, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/exporting-lists-setting-our-own-default-columns/23774/8 "2024-03-07T13:22:31Z")
Agreed! ---
**Author:** ![IRKiroku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b2d939/32.png) [@IRKiroku](https://community.hubspot.com/u/IRKiroku)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2026, 11:46am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/exporting-lists-setting-our-own-default-columns/23774/9 "2026-03-06T11:46:09Z")
This would be great, I regularly need to report on data I export out of Hubspot to share with a partner and it’s very annoying having to remove company data, in particular when my export is based on contacts, not companies ---
**Author:** ![agirard](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/agirard/32/55643_2.png) [@agirard](https://community.hubspot.com/u/agirard)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 9:05pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/exporting-lists-setting-our-own-default-columns/23774/11 "2026-10-05T21:05:33Z")
Hi team, Alex from the HubSpot product team here. I’m doing some auditing of the Ideas Forum, and I’m going to mark this as delivered. When you go to export records, you’re either asked to select the columns you want to export, or you are given the option to export all the values in view, all the properties on the records, or all properties + associations (see pic below). ![image](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/5/457c03872068893da131bdda26425e75a105cc9b.png) If this doesn’t solve what we’re looking for here, please reply!! I’d love to hear more about this problem to see if we can get exports to behave as you’d expect.