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Avoid duplicate row add to Excel

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Hi all. My flow has an action that adds a row to an Excel Spreadsheet. I'm trying to add a check so that if a column contains a matching value, it will skip adding the row. If the column does not contain a matching value, it will add the row. I think I'm part of the way there, but haven't gotten it to work as expected yet. Can someone help point out what I'm missing?

 

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  • Mira Ghaly Profile Picture
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    Re: Avoid duplicate row add to Excel

    @ryan2k 

     

    Please check the below article it is doing the same but on sharepoint yet you can do the same using Excel by adding a filter query on List Rows to check if the row pre-existed, hope it gives you an idea!

    https://onlinemgblog.wordpress.com/2021/05/29/building-flows-1-check-if-item-exist-and-update-if-exists/

     

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    Riyaz_riz11 Profile Picture
    3,661 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    Re: Avoid duplicate row add to Excel

    Hi @ryan2k 

     

    You can even use these steps as well.

    Get row from excel , so if not find it will throw error, so in config run after you can use handle exception if not able to find row, it will go for updated row.

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    Regards

    Ahammad Riyaz

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