Save and close Excel files. A basic understanding of how to use the Power Automate for desktop console and flow designer, and familiarity with Microsoft Excel. Learn how to use Power Automate for desktop to open, read, and manipulate Excel files with various Microsoft Excel actions.

Use the Write to Excel worksheet action to write the PersonName variable to the active cell (for a new workbook this will be A1). Use the Save As option for the Save Excel action to save your workbook using the name PersonName (see below this table for how to do this).

Feb 9, 2023 · First, open an Excel file by Launch Excel Action or Attach to running Excel Action, make some edits, and then drag Save Excel Action from Excel to the Workspace. Set parameters. Specify the Excel file to save. Specify the variables generated by Launch Excel Action and Attach to running Excel Action in this field.

Jun 25, 2021 · It converts .xml to .csv but will also convert excel files to .csv tables. If you would like to directly convert the file without having to iterate through all XML nodes in multiple loops, you can directly convert the file using a CMD script calling a .vbs file that does the transformation for you. It takes all but a few milliseconds to process.

Feb 10, 2025 · Modify the local copy of the Excel file using Power Automate for desktop's Excel automation actions. Override the Excel file copy synchronized through OneDrive/ Sharepoint with the local copy that includes the latest changes.

Nov 9, 2022 · I am trying to loop through a folder and save it as a different file name based on a cell in excel. why can't you store your variable, close the file, then rename it the variable? I will try that and see if it works, do you have an example of this or screenshot?

Jul 31, 2024 · I've scripted access to my company's SaaS in PA and downloaded a report as an Excel .csv file. The file is auto-named Report ('27').csv. When using the PA command 'Close Excel', it specifically calls for Report (27).

May 24, 2022 · You’ll learn how to use Power Automate Desktop to: Launch Excel on your local machine; Create a new Excel workbook; Write content to a worksheet; Close and save the Excel file to a specific location

May 11, 2023 · In this post, we look at how to run Excel macros from Power Automate desktop so we can automate our Excel work even faster.

Mar 14, 2024 · Drag “For each” to the workspace next to “Read from Excel worksheet” action. At the parameter “Value to iterate” enter the variable you want robot to repeat. For this article, we will iterate the ExcelData variable, which is a data table type, and then press Save.