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Triggering task creation based on new excel date

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Posted on by CB-04111256-0
Hi all,
I have a flow that I can run manually, but I am trying to set it up to automatically run 1 a day and to pull from a column and if there is an entry with the current date, create a task.
My flow hangs up on getting the data.
Specifically no data is found. I am relatively new to Power Automate but cannot work out how to get this setup, any suggestions would be appreciated.
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    David_MA 15,530 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at
    You need to do two things:
    1. In the Excel action, set the DateTime Format to ISO 8601 format from the drop-down menu.
    2. Use the formatDateTime expression on the UTCNow date and format it as 'yyyy-MM-dd', which is the ISO8601 date format.

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