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Maximize your productivity in Excel with Power Automate

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The new “Automate work” button in Excel Online, powered by Power Automate, has made it easier than ever to automate tasks and run processes efficiently from anywhere. This feature extends the capabilities of Power Automate by providing access to pre-built templates and allowing users to build workflows quickly and easily within Excel Online. This button replaces the “Automate a Task” button in Excel Online. Previously, the “Automate a Task” button only allowed users to select templates for Office Scripts, which would then take them to the Power Automate portal to build a flow. But now, with just a few clicks, you can automate repetitive tasks, reduce errors, and boost productivity, all without ever leaving Excel!

Deeper control over HTTP invocation of flows

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HTTP request trigger is a frequently used functionality that helps customers integrate Power Automate with other systems. This allows a flow to be started based on an HTTP call. Today, we are introducing OAuth support for HTTP request triggers for deeper control on what applications and users can invoke such automations.

Seamlessly connect apps, data and processes across Dataverse environments

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We’re excited to announce the public preview of a much-anticipated update to the Microsoft Dataverse connector in Power Automate. With the new ‘Environment’ parameter, you can use the Dataverse connector to seamlessly connect apps, data, and processes in different Power Platform environments.

Announcing Deeper SAP Integration for the Power Platform

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Microsoft’s acquisition of Clear Software has led to new functionality for organizations running SAP in Power Apps, Power Automate, and Logic Apps that will enable large-scale adoption of the Power Platform.

Your ultimate email sentiment analysis solution!

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Want to level up your customer service game? Discover how to automatically detect negative customer emails and take immediate action with Power Automate and Microsoft Teams integrated with AI Builder’s sentiment analysis. Don’t miss out on this powerful solution for top-notch email management.

New ways to innovate with AI and Microsoft Power Automate

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At Microsoft Ignite 2022, we were pleased to share some exciting innovations for Power Automate, empowering makers and pro-coders with new ways to automate and scale enterprise-wide with AI.

How to use Actionable Messages in Outlook with Power Automate

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Power Automate makes it easy to send actionable messages to Microsoft Teams, but did you know it is possible to send an actionable message from a Power Automate flow in an email from a user account?

Introduction to Power Automate RPA desktop flows analytics

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The ability to monitor analytics of overall RPA (Robotic Process Automation) desktop flows is critical, so that you can view the overall automation health and adoption status across the whole organization. You now have two different options to monitor the analytics for RPA desktop flows — from Power Platform Admin Center or using the CoE Starter Kit.

AI Builder form processing models can now train using documents that have different layouts

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You can now create a unique form processing model that will extract the same information from up to 100 different document layouts.

Power Automate Desktop October 2020 update

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Power Automate Desktop has introduced productivity and development enhancements in October 2020 update, including: run history logs with specific subflow information, action parameters that are grouped together for better legibility and retrieving From and To fields from emails.

Announcing Delay, Command-Line Arguments, and Copy-Paste Features for UI Flows

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Power Automate UI flows is excited to announce the delay, command-line argument, and copy-paste features to further empower users!

New licensing options for PowerApps and Microsoft Flow standalone paid plans

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We’ve seen tremendous growth in the usage of PowerApps and Flow over the course of the past year. Just as we’ve been rolling out new features in response to user input, we’re also listening to input about how to license and implement premium capabilities. In response to these needs, we’re pleased to announce two new plans that we will be introducing later this year: a PowerApps per app plan and a Flow per business process plan.

Intermediate | Flow of the week: Create PDF Invoices Using Word Templates with Microsoft Flow

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John MacDougall is a Microsoft MVP and freelance consultant and trainer for hire specializing in Excel, Power BI, Flow, PowerApps and SharePoint. You can find more interesting articles from John on his blog or YouTube channel. In this post he is going to show you how you can use the new Word connectors in Flow to easily create some really nice looking PDF invoices.

October Updates for Microsoft Flow

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At Ignite we announced the new UI flows feature, but there were a few other updates in the month of October that we would like to share. Use the new child flow feature to have one flow easy trigger another one. The Flow mobile app can trigger flows when you enter or exit a location. We also have twenty-eight new connectors now available, along with many new actions in the most-used connectors!

Power Automate for desktop – December 2021 update

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Power Automate for desktop comes with new features in December 2021 release, including the unified recorder, the tenant picker, the ability to create copies of flows from the console, as well as multiple improvements over many different actions.

Power Automate for desktop – January 2022 update

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Power Automate for desktop comes with new additions in January 2022 release, including performance improvements during flow authoring and the restructure of Excel instance functionality to support multiple macros.

Tag incoming emails with AI Builder

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AI Builder is a Power Automate capability that provides AI models that are designed to optimize your business processes by gleaning insights from your data. There are many different ways that you can use AI Builder – this is the part one of a 3-part weekly series on some common ways to get started. Almost everyone has to deal with incoming emails as a part of their job – and AI Builder can help you to make meaning of this incoming flow of information.

Microsoft acquires Softomotive to expand low-code robotic process automation capabilities in Microsoft Power Automate

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Today, we are announcing the acquisition of Softomotive, a world-leading provider of robotic process automation (RPA) provider with over 15 years of experience and the creator of WinAutomation.

Ten New Connectors Released in June 2020!

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In June 2020 we released ten new connectors for Power Automate, bringing us to over 350 connectors on the platform.

Create flows easily with the new Power Automate app for Teams

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Over the past year, Power Automate has been integrating more deeply with Microsoft Teams to help you automate your work and be more productive. We’ve introduced features like triggering a flow from any message and new Teams actions like create a meeting and mention support that allow rich and complex workflows within Teams.

Discover, learn and create flows using in product help!

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Looking for guidance on how to get started with a trigger or action and popular scenarios with examples? Today we are announcing the availability of a new Power Virtual Agents-based chatbot and contextual help while building flows.

Power Automate UI Flows December 2019 update is now available

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Power Automate UI Flows December 2019 update is now available with new supports for International Keyboard Layout Support and UI Localizations, as well as addressed some playback issues.

Optimizing custom connectors through enhanced built-in validations

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We are pleased to announce that we are optimizing connectors through enhanced validations. This means that all of the connectors you use, whether it’s one of the almost 300 out-of-box connectors provided by the Power Platform, or one of the custom connectors built within your organization, will see fewer run time errors, and a more consistent, and maintainable, experience. 

Advanced | Flow of the Week: Triage and Team Assignment with Microsoft Flow

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Triage and Team Assignment Flow Whats up Flow Friends! This post is written by George Culler and Brian Osgood from the Azure team.

Latest innovations to scale automation with Microsoft Power Automate

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Today at Microsoft Build, we announced new ways your organization can streamline business processes at scale with Microsoft Power Automate. Be sure to watch the Microsoft Build session, Exciting innovations in Power Automate, to learn about the latest innovations we’ve made to help to scale automation across your enterprise easier.