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Transferring long text to Excel from SharePoint

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Posted on by Cisil 2

Hello,

I have a PA flow to move the items from SharePoint list to Excel. It runs without any error. But if there is a long text in SharePoint it is automatically shown in the multiple lines in Excel. Do you have any idea to solve it? 'ttttt' and 'aaa' should be in the same line. 

SharePoint view: 

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Excel view:

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  • VJR Profile Picture
    VJR 7,635 on at

    Can you identify which invisible character it is after coming from Sharepoint before going to Excel... Tab, newline, carriage return, line feed or any other.

    Then perhaps you can replace them with an empty string or a space so that they will come next to each other.

     

    I have added some posts here on how to identify these characters using a hex editor.

    https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Automate-Desktop/Impossible-to-rename-files-with-an-extraction-of-a-data-web-page/m-p/1519483/highlight/true#M12810

     

    https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Automate-Desktop/Formatting-Text-in-a-Text-File-that-includes-variables/m-p/1513003/highlight/true#M12687

     

     

     

  • Cisil Profile Picture
    Cisil 2 on at

    Hi,

     

    Thank you for quick response. But I think there is a limitation on HTML to text. The long sentence is shown in more than one lines. I tried to replace '\n', or create a variable as 'enter' and use it. But it doesn't work. 

    Cisil_1-1674207515145.png

     

     

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