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Trying to use Power Automate to cut and paste from Outlook. To Smart Service and from Outlook to Acuity Scheduling. And I can't figure it out.

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David_MA 14,956 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Is your question related to Power Automate Desktop? If not, there is no way to cut and paste from Outlook through Power Automate Cloud flows. If it is related to Power Automate Desktop, you'll need to wait for someone else to reply, as I don't use the tool. We use UiPath for RPA flows.

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MW-13021322-0 2 on at

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i tried uipath and it always seemed not to work for me, so i wanted to try power automate desktop

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eetuRobo 4,565 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Can you explain in more detail what you want to happen? Screenshots are usually very helpful to give more context. I am not familiar with "Smart Service" or "Acuity Scheduling". What is it you want to cut/copy? Is it an email in outlook or something(calendar event?) else? Is the data plain text or something else?

Does the cut / paste work from outlook to the target system when you do it manually? If so try to use the Recorder to record all the steps

In Power Automate Desktop you can use "Send keys" -actions to simulate keyboard activity like cut and paste.

Copy:

In action edit:

Text to send: {Control}({C})

Cut would be: {Control}({X})

and paste would be: {Control}({V})

You can also use "Get clipboard text" -action to save the copied or cut text to a variable

Or you can use "Extract data from window" to extract data based on the UI element

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