diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 429520f..0b9cc26 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: readODS
 Type: Package
 Title: Read and Write ODS Files
-Version: 2.2.0
+Version: 2.2.0.999
 Authors@R: 
     c(person("Gerrit-Jan", "Schutten", role = c("aut"), email = "phonixor@gmail.com"),
     person("Chung-hong", "Chan", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "chainsawtiney@gmail.com", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6232-7530")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index fe21d1d..7b6a774 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# readODS 2.2.0.999
+
+## Bug fixes
+
+* Fix #185 - `trim_ws` for `colnames` behaves the same as `readxl::read_xlsx()`.
+
 # readODS 2.2.0
 
 * Fix #151 - Now `read_ods()` and `list_ods_sheets()` can also be used to process flat ods files. `read_fods()` and `list_fods_sheets()` are still available, but not as the so-called "common interface."
diff --git a/R/read_ods.R b/R/read_ods.R
index 0eea24f..147bbe5 100644
--- a/R/read_ods.R
+++ b/R/read_ods.R
@@ -253,6 +253,9 @@
     if (strings_as_factors) {
         res <- .convert_strings_to_factors(df = res)
     }
+    if (trim_ws && ncol(res) >= 1) {
+        colnames(res) <- stringi::stri_trim_both(colnames(res))
+    }
     if (as_tibble) {
         res <- tibble::as_tibble(x = res, .name_repair = .name_repair)
     }
diff --git a/tests/testdata/spaces_colnames.ods b/tests/testdata/spaces_colnames.ods
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a924d16
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diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_read_ods.R b/tests/testthat/test_read_ods.R
index 728bcfb..b917f6a 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_read_ods.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_read_ods.R
@@ -124,6 +124,11 @@ test_that("trim_ws", {
     expect_equal(read_ods("../testdata/leadingspaces.ods", trim_ws = TRUE)[1,1, drop = TRUE], "abc")
 })
 
+test_that("trim_ws and colnames #185", {
+    expect_equal(colnames(read_ods("../testdata/spaces_colnames.ods", trim_ws = TRUE)), "abc")
+    expect_equal(colnames(read_ods("../testdata/spaces_colnames.ods", trim_ws = FALSE)), "     abc    ")
+})
+
 ## V2.0.0 behavior: backward compatibility
 
 test_that("Single column ODS v2.0.0", {