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Excel: what are the limitations with special characters in column name?

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Hello,

 

I'm trying to make a flow to treat multiple forms responses. My idea is to have a scheduled flow who read the answers in the Excel files generated by Forms.

 

The column names are generated by the questions in the form so it must stay as a understable question, there can be special characters in it. I have a column called "Geeft volmacht aan : Naam & Voornaam - Donne procuration à : Nom & Prénom". The flow cannot read the value in this column. What is wrong?

 

I try to remove the "&" character but still in error?

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    raks Profile Picture
    on at

    Problem solved. I've looked to the output of "list rows in excel file" and see how was interpreted the special characters.

  • v-qiaqi@microsoft.com Profile Picture
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    Hi @raks,

    Nice trick.

    Thanks for your sharing.

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