Change SAP Standard Field description easily

In real time, you need several fields to maintain customer information. When there is no proper field is there in your transaction, you ended up with using a unused field. But what happens is the description is totally misleading or inappropriate with the ideal meaning of the real time usage.

Options for that sort of scenarios:

1. Create custom field in data dictionary and add it in the screen

2. Change the standard SAP description. If you use multiple languages, have to maintain in all

3. Live with it. Use the same SAP description and inform user to ignore the description

Here is the simplest and the recommended way to change description of a fields.

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1.Go-to the relevant transaction. I use here Material master.

2. Locate the desired field

3. Press F1 and get the data element name.

4. Go-to SMOD transaction.

5. Follow this menu path

6. Enter the data element copied in the step 3.

7. You will get a screen to enter desired description.

The length of each field is :
- Short field label: 10 characters
- Medium field label: 20 characters
- Long field label: 40 characters
- Heading: 55 characters
- Short Description: 60 characters

8. Save it. You may need to add it to a transport request.

9. Now go back to the transaction. (MM03) Description has now changed.

10. Press F1, it displays the entered Short Description