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Retrieve internal column name of Excel document for ODATA filter query

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Hi all,
 
Can someone help please?
 
I have a Power Automate flow which gets triggered when a new Excel file is added to a Sharepoint site.
 
In the next step, I have a 'List rows present in a table' action which reads the data from the Excel table.
 
But I don't want to list all the rows in the Excel table so I have a statement in the 'Filter Query' section which says to retrieve only data for a certain date.
 
This is where the problem is: in Excel, the column name is [Date] but when I write that in the 'Filter Query' section, it doesn't accept [Date] as a valid column name.
 
I've tried the following but to no avail: Date, _Date_, _Date, _[Date]_
 
I'm thinking I may need the internal name in Excel for the column named [Date] (like using the schema name of a Dataverse table) but I don't know how to find that.
 
Can someone suggest anything please?
 
 
Here's what the Excel table looks like:
 
 
 
 
And here's the 'List rows present in a table' action in my flow - the statement in the 'Filter Query' section doesn't work!!
 
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    Nived_Nambiar Profile Picture
    18,129 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    Hi,
     
    I think column names with brackets seems to be not supported in excel odata filter query 
     
     
     
    would recommend either use filter array action or if possible switch to other datasources like sharepoint list or dataverse where there won't be much issue with these column names 
     
    Thanks & Regards,
    Nived N

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