Field name without ID when Save As PDF Form

Hi,
I couldn't fin anywhere anybody complaining about the same problem, thus I apologise if there is some bascis I don't understand.
When I'm saving the form from FormsCentral as pdf, then fill the form, and finally export the data to Excel, the labels show an ugly machine-created ID on top of the label value
Example: my orginial label is "2.1.1.1 Title" when exported in Excel, the column name becomes : "_2_1_1_1 Title_MLJDCBBxpN-6npaHxT3sWw".
I can undesrtand the underscores (guess easier to be managed by computers), but I need people working with those forms, with very little IT skills.
Would be possible to have nicer lables automatically (or hide this kind of ID) ?
Thank you in advance for any help
Best regards
Juan Manuel

Hi Josh,
Sorry for the confusion, my English is poor.
Well, let's start saying that I'm working offline. Once I finished my form, I save it as a pdf document. This document is sent to the people to be filled. They send me back the filled file. I open Acrobat, click on Tools, and choose Forms>More Form Options>Merge Data Files into Spreadsheets... and choose the file to have the data exported. When I open the excel file the column titles look horrible, with the above mentioned serials. I just would like to find my labels.
AND, by the way, with no need to complete all the steps mentioned above: when I save my form in pdf format and then open it on acrobat, if I choose Tools>Forms>Edit, first it says I have to save it as a copy otherwise not possible to edit as a form. Once saved as a copy and opened again, I click on Tools>Forms>Edit and see the awful labels [see attachment].
Hope is clearer
Thanks for any help
JM

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