Column name has spaces

Is there any way to make OBIEE handle a table which has column names with spaces?
Besides creating a view with aliases on that table, of course?
I suppose, it's about making a queries where all column names are quoted.

Well, this is exactly how I created all those tables. They have tens of columns like that, unfortunately, that was a requirement.
I am completely new to OBIEE tool, but AFAIK it maps physical tables to some business layers and then it generates queries to the database depending on user's actions.
So my question is: is it possible to configure OBIEE server so that all queries sent to DB have column names in quotes, regardless of particular column name?
It's about total of 1000 columns with such names spread over 80 tables, so I am looking for easy way to make it work with those tables...

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