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Power Automate Launching Excel that is different than what is on desktop

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Posted on by user789123

Power Automate did not use to have this issue but this has occurred with update 2.35.159.23221. I have a flow that launces excel and populates data from a website. This has worked well until I updated it today to the most recent version. When power automate launces excel it wants to use a version that I am not signed into. I am signed into the excel on my desktop, but this is not what launches. When I try to log in to the excel power automate brings up it completely crashes, and I can do nothing else. It has made my flow unusable.

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  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
    Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

    Do I understand it correctly that you have several versions of Excel installed on your machine?

    Have you tried uninstalling the version that you don't want to use?

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