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Copying from one excel to another

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Posted on by polywantacracke

Hi,

I'm new to power automate, and trying to create a simple flow which copies the content of one table to another, both in excel.

I want the Key value to be taken from the 1st table (that I'm copying from), but cannot seem to make this work. Is this possible?

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beerad on at

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Yes. It is possible. A couple of things I noticed that might be causing an issue:

It seems the "Create a Table" step is unnecessary as you already have the destination table correct?
If you are copying the final step should be "Add a Row" since the row wouldn't already exist to update correct?

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polywantacracke 24 on at

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Hi Brad,

Thanks for your reply.
I added the "create table" step since I thought it was needed before the "list rows", which requires a table as an input. When I use the "Add rows" function, it simply adds blank rows, see below:

Thanks!

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Did you add what column information from the originating list goes in what columns for the destination list? Below is an example and this worked for me.

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polywantacracke 24 on at

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Thanks again Brad. This is my problem - it does not offer me the rows from the first table. Any idea why?

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Is the originating table formatted as a table with column headers?

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Hi @polywantacracke ,

Do you want to copy the contents of table1 in the same excel to table2?

You could format the two tables as a table with column headers, and use the created table as input in the "List Row". I have a test for your reference, you could refer to the screenshot below:

Best Regards,

Jessica Gu

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