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Turn off scientific notation in power-automate

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Posted on by Muneeb 8

I am generating an excel file using the Select operation but it is automatically converting numbers into E+ format. How can I stop this behavior in the power automate?

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  • Addon Profile Picture
    Addon 52 on at

    I have the same issue, has anybody resolve it? 

     

  • bretmanrock Profile Picture
    bretmanrock Microsoft Employee on at

    I have same issue can you help us.

  • E_Wood Profile Picture
    E_Wood 3 on at

    I also am having this issue.

  • Paulburn Profile Picture
    Paulburn 2 on at

    do a string function around your number.

  • Mel1Mel0 Profile Picture
    Mel1Mel0 28 on at

    It does not work. Be it the string function or '' or putting it inside a string variable... it is still considered number by excel and transformed into scientific notation which make me lose the end of the number also

  • WillPage Profile Picture
    WillPage 2,323 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Simply convert to integer with the int() function:

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  • Chriddle Profile Picture
    Chriddle 8,672 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    This is not Power Automate.

    Change the column format in your Excel file.

  • WillPage Profile Picture
    WillPage 2,323 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    That's a pretty unhelpful comment. You don't always have control of the data you need to process and it absolutely is a thing you can solve easily in power automate because its numerical conversion functions can handle scientific notation natively.

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    Chriddle 8,672 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Please explain. I'm not aware of such "numerical conversion functions" in Power Automate.

     

    From what I understand, the OP's problem is that Excel displays large numbers in scientific notation when the cell format is set to "General".

    If you set this to "Number", the issue is solved.

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    WillPage 2,323 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Look at my response to the question. It's directly above yours

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