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Any way to write Power Automate Desktop Using keyboard Shorcuts?

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I use voice recognition for most of my work. I’d love to use Power Automate Desktop, but unlike most other MS tools I can’t find any keyboard shortcuts to operate it. Any suggestions?

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Hi @rAndersS ,

Please refer to this document for guidance of how to use keyborad actions in Power Automate Desktop:
Mouse and keyboard actions reference - Power Automate | Microsoft Learn

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Sorry I wasn’t clear enough. I don’t want to use PAD to simulate clicking keys, I want to use keyboard shortcuts to operate PAD.

In Outlook, instead of using the mouse you can take most actions using the keyboard via keyboard shortcuts:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/keyboard-shortcuts-for-outlook-3cdeb221-7ae5-4c1d-8c1d-9e63216c1efd

The same is true for Excel:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/keyboard-shortcuts-in-excel-1798d9d5-842a-42b8-9c99-9b7213f0040f

Does PAD have an equivalent list of keyboard shortcuts?

If not, are there any workarounds — eg can you write PAD flows in Visual Studio Code, which has extensive keyboard shortcuts (I don’t mean writing VB Scripts in VS Code and then using them in PAD, I mean writing actual flows from VB Script so I could create a flow that my users, who don’t know coding, could be able to modify it using PAD the way most folks do)?

Thanks!

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Hi @rAndersS ,

So you want keyboard shortcuts being used during designing process rather than running process right?
According to my understanding there's no such function in PAD. Pity for that.

Below are links may help you on your point (or not):
Automate applications using keyboard shortcuts - Power Automate | Microsoft Learn
Trigger desktop flows from cloud flows - Power Automate | Microsoft Learn
Mouse and keyboard actions reference - Power Automate | Microsoft Learn

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