diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.2.3.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.2.3.rst
index 4231b6d94b1b9..5ed8fd84472c4 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.2.3.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.2.3.rst
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ including other versions of pandas.
 Fixed regressions
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-- Fixed regression in :func:`pandas.to_excel` raising ``KeyError`` when giving duplicate columns with ``columns`` attribute (:issue:`39695`)
+- Fixed regression in :meth:`~DataFrame.to_excel` raising ``KeyError`` when giving duplicate columns with ``columns`` attribute (:issue:`39695`)
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