October App of the month – Power Automate

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Power Automate – Automation for your applications

You may have used Macros in the past which were automations for standard applications, mainly by Excel Users which used a programming language called Visual Basic.

Now we have Power Automate which is going to transform the business lives of every business using Microsoft 365! What tasks are done on a regular basis in your team? Using Power Automate you will start to learn to automate these tasks. To give you some ideas of what you can do open your Power Automate App and check out the templates!

Here are some basic Power Automations that we think are awesome

  • When a record in a list is marked as approved an email is sent to a manager informing them of the approval
  • When a form is completed the data is sent to a list and a key individual is updated that new data has been entered
  • EMails with attachments using coded Subject Lines are automatically filed in SharePoint
  • When a document needs to be reviewed it sends an email to the originator
  • Any attachment sent in Outlook is automatically filed in my Attachments Folder in One Drive
  • In Excel a script which unhides all columns and rows
  • When a new SharePoint Site is created add a calculated column
  • Create a Task in Planner based on an Event being created in Outlook
  • Save files saved in a specific location automatically as PDF and publish to Company

Can you think of repetitive tasks that you carry out? Find out more today…

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