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Copying an Excel document and writing to specific cells

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Posted on by TW-05100743-0 2
Hi all, 
 
Is it possible to use Power Automate to take information from a Microsoft Form, copy an Excel document on Sharepoint Online, rename the file to one of the form fields (ticket number) and then add values to specific cells, within the newly created document?
The spreadsheet that I've been asked to do this on is a machine build list that is provided to our team from the sales team. Details are often not included or shared with the wrong people, we want to use a form with required fields in and have it automatically saved in Sharepoint with a little end user interaction in the middle.
 
Any help is greatly appreciated :)
 
Kind regards
Tom
 
 
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    Michael E. Gernaey Profile Picture
    Michael E. Gernaey 53,978 Moderator on at
    HI
     
    The answer is 100% yes you can.
     
     
    1. You would use a When a Response Is Submitted Action
    2. Then a Get Response Details Action to get the details from the Trigger on #1
    3. Use the Copy File action for SharePoint (or one drive) to make a copy AND name it at the same time, using the
    input from the form (you said ticket number). just make sure to give it an extension also
     
    4. Then you would use the Update an item in a table (Excel Action) to write the data into the copied excel file
     
    Notes
     
    1) put a Wait action between your Copy command and the Update Action, 3-10 minutes, so that you dont get locked out errors
    2) You have to make sure that the Excel Sheet as an Excel Table around the Data, without it NO you cannot use power automate to update fields
     
    3) if you do not have a table in it already, you can use the Create Table action to add one around the data, just before you do your Updates
     
    And done.

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