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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?

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

    Hi @raks,

    Nice trick.

    Thanks for your sharing.

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

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

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