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Can't update the item from excel loop in Power Automate Desktop

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Hello,

 

I've encountered a bit of a problem. I am trying to update the CurrentItem in my Power Automate Desktop flow. I used the For Each loop to iterate through the rows of the data table in excel file in the main subflow. Then, I tried to rewrite the CurrentItem with a modified info back to the active cell in another subflow (since I have to repeat this step twice). However, the flow rewrites the data to the next row starting in the second column instead of the first instead of the previous place.

 

Is there a rather simple solution for this issue? Maybe getting rid of subflows would help? I tried to use cloud flows for this, but my Windows 10 home does not have Power Autome Machine Runtime in order to connect to the desktop flow (which I need for UI).

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