Automate Dynamic Excel Table Creation with Power Automate Cloud Flows | Step-by-Step Guide

Turn any Excel file—even those without tables—into dynamic, ready-to-use data for your Power Automate cloud flows! In this expert Power Platform tutorial, you'll discover how to create tables on the fly in Excel and seamlessly retrieve their data, unlocking new automation possibilities for your business processes.

Ever struggled to automate Excel files that aren’t set up as tables? I’ll walk you through a practical, low-code solution using Power Automate, Excel Office Scripts, and cloud flows, perfect for citizen developers and anyone driving digital transformation. Whether you need to process invoices, extract data from email attachments, or prep files for Dataverse, this step-by-step guide will show you how to dynamically create tables and pull their data—no manual setup required!

What You’ll Learn:
✔️ Build a Power Automate cloud flow that dynamically creates Excel tables from raw data
✔️ Automate data extraction from Excel files—even when they aren’t formatted as tables
✔️ Return table data to your flow as an array or using the “List rows present in a table” action
✔️ Apply these techniques for BPA, workflow automation, and digital transformation use cases

Timestamps:
00:00 – Instantly Turn Flat Excel Data into Dynamic Tables with Power Automate
01:12 – Overview: Why Dynamic Table Creation Solves Real Workflow Problems
03:10 – Step-by-Step: Cloud Flow Actions Explained
11:52 – Deep Dive: Excel Office Script for Table Creation
24:15 – Test Run: See the Dynamic Table and Data Retrieval in Action
31:40 – Practical Scenarios: Automate Invoices, Email Attachments, and More
36:17 – Wrap-Up: Tips, Use Cases, and Next Steps for Power Platform Automation

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Additional Links:
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7GLQnvJJF0&list=PLzq6d1ITy6c138K_CM7hs9T1zuvvZufX_ Cloud flow, actions, and Excel Office Script to populate individual cells, ranges, or rows in an Excel file without a table.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lskqQNDegXc&list=PLzq6d1ITy6c138K_CM7hs9T1zuvvZufX_ Populating an invoice template using the techniques described.
🔗 https://pnp.github.io/blog/post/excel-scripts-and-cloud-flows-data-manipulation/ Excel scripts and cloud flows for data manipulation.

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