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2.17 | Excel - launching sheet from SP location is broken

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Posted on by Waylold 106

Good morning,

It appears that with the update to 2.17 the ability to have Excel open a SP stored worksheet is broken. I have an automation that had been running for 6 months with no issue and suddenly Excel won’t even launch the SP worksheet after the update. 

 

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I adjusted the settings to see if that was impacting to no avail. 

 

@John_Mavridis 

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  • John_Mavridis Profile Picture
    John_Mavridis Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @Waylold,

     

    A fix about this issue has been included in the upcoming March's release (v2.18), where it should be resolved. The new release is currently expected to go live in a couple of weeks.

     

    As soon as it becomes available, please do let us know if your automation works properly.

    Thank you.

     

     

  • S_CORCORAN Profile Picture
    S_CORCORAN 10 on at

    Hello @John_Mavridis , 

     

    I have been running into this issue on some of my recent flows in Power Automate Desktop.  I have the most recent version of PAD installed and I've repaired my Office 365 a few times.  With the new release of Power Automate Desktop has this issue suddenly re-surfaced?  I have several flows that rely on Launching Excel and I need to know if there is any resolution for this error. 

     

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