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Get The First Free Row - Excel borders

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Posted on by pae1 86

Hello everyone,

I hope your day is going well. The issue I encountered was when I used the "get the first free row" action in PAD on my Excel sheet with borders. It seems like PAD sees Excel borders as a filled cell. Did anyone else encounter this issue? If so, were you able to resolve it?

Thank you,

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  • eetuRobo Profile Picture
    eetuRobo 4,522 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    I couldn't replicate that issue. I added some borders and even table 

    eetuRobo_0-1710248495459.png

    Or even if last value is outside table:

    eetuRobo_1-1710248570540.png


    Are you sure the cells inside the borders doesn't have whitespaces in them?

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    Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
    Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

    The Get first free row/column from Excel worksheet action interprets any formatting as part of the data, so if you have any formatting below the data, you'll get blank rows/columns retrieved, too.

     

    The Get first free row on column from Excel worksheet action that @eetuRobo shows in their screenshots is different and does not have this issue. So, if you don't care about the last column and only need the last row, it's a good idea to use this action instead.

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