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Import email outlook to excel

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Posted on by paul0021 12
I would like to import the beginning of text in an email to Excel via Powerautomate. The message contains: Good morning. My name is Paweł. How are you. I would like to import the first two sentences
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    Michael E. Gernaey Profile Picture
    Michael E. Gernaey 53,968 Moderator on at
    HI
     
    I would like to have seen a properly formatted message. Its the only way to help you properly. Since you just wrong a single string up top.
     
    1. Have an Email Trigger for when one comes in
    2. Use the HTML to Text Action for the Email
     
    3. Parse the Email. Again I need to see the actual Email as its laid out to help you. Parsing can be done many different ways.
     
    If everything ends in Periods.
     
    Then do a Split(OutputOfHtmlToTextAction, '.')
     
    This will create an Array
     
    Then grab Array elements [0] and [1] and you have the first two sentences.
     
    Now you can save it wherever you want.
     
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    Inogic Profile Picture
    Inogic 1,297 Moderator on at
    Hi,
     
    To take out the first two sentences from the email body please do the following step as shown below

    My email message contains the body below
    1. I have created the flow  which trigger on the modified of the Email message record
    1. then used the “Html to text” Action which converts the description field which is HTML format into a string format


     
    1. use compose action to make the array of sentences from the output of “Html to text”,
                  for that use the expression  split(body('Html_to_text'),'.')     
    currently, we are splitting the sentence based on a full stop symbol (.)
    1. then create a compose action which takes the first two sentences as shown below
    expression used are
    outputs('arrayOfSentence')?[0] :- this will give the first sentence
    outputs('arrayOfSentence')?[1] :- this will give second sentence


    Output of above flow will be

     
    Please mark this answer as accepted solution if it helped you.
     
    Hope this helps.
     
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