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Posted on by nick9one1 315
I have a flow where I'm extracting two tables from a PDF. the first table contains some basic account information. 
 
I need to extract the account number and save it as a variable to use elsewhere. It is always in the same cell in the table (column 2 row 2). How do I extract this? 

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    eetuRobo 4,476 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    In regular Power Automate Desktop flow its very straight forward.  You just use %DataTable[1][1]% to read the second column in second row (its zero index so first row and column is 0). So I think in your case %CurrentTable.DataTable[1][1]%
    Or if you loop it then in currently looped datarow you access the second column like so: %CurrentRow[1]%

    But if you know that the table is always lets say second table then you can remove the for each loop and just extract the value with single set variable:
    %ExtractedPDFTables[1].DataTable[1][1]%
    So thats second tables second rows second column value.

    In Power Fx enabled dekstop flow would use: =ReadCell(DataTable, 2, 2) to read second row and second column (power fx read cell is not zero based index)

     
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    nick9one1 315 on at
    thank you. That's exactly what I wanted to know. I can make the flow a lot more simple and remove the loops.

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