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Write Variable in dynamic column

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Posted on by Microsoft Employee

Hi community,

 

I want to write the variables "First name" and "Last name" into an Excel file. I want Power Automate Desktop to find out for itself in which column the "First name" should be written, depending on the column header in the target file. So that the column is dynamic and the variable is written in, for example, column 1 or whatever.

Has anyone experience in a similar case ? Or even a solution?

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    fraenK Profile Picture
    2,125 on at

    To make it "dynamic", you'll need to read the Excel file first to get the headers and their column numbers.

    "Write to Excel worksheet" only works with column number or letter.

    Cloud flows handles Excel files much better.

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    Microsoft Employee on at

    It is suprisingly complicated to do this in PAD. Write to %Row[%N%]% is not allowed and hence a workaround is required. 

     

    Here my end goal is to write '' into the Column with the header of Done? into any row where the value contains "ERROR"

     

    The solution in short creates a variable %N% which is the Column Number that contains the header of "Done?". 

     

    The workaround I found that works is shown below1.png2.png

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