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Posted on by Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee

Hi, I just discovered so amazing and powerful tool which is power automate.

I want to save export from SAP which comes as a spreadsheet, but saved in an MHTML extension, that opens in SAP, I was willing to attach to running excel named: export.MTHML / export / export.MHTML - Excel and nothing works I am getting the error: "No Excel document found named export.MHTML.", the file from SAP are getting saved as export.MHTML - I can save with XLS as well, but there are many issues with this file as spaces in a cell before the wanted value begins.

Can you help me out?

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    MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

    PAD has a "Rename File" command which has a "Rename Scheme" parameter which can be set to "Change Extension."  I wonder if changing the file extension AFTER download it as MHTML would solve your problem.

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    Then you could manipulate it in Excel, save, and close.

    After doing so, use the same command to change it back to MHTML.

     

    Best of luck.

     

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    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    I have reached my goal but in a different way.

    I made changes in flow where the file with MHTML has been opened by VBS, there I have add step that is closing window named as "export.MHTML - Excel", second step is open Excel instance with existing file - I have choosen path to file export.MHTML

    Finally I'm able to manipulate the file 🙂 

     

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