Dynamic webpage Checkbox based off data from excel

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I am trying to create an automation, that based off of different excel data that is matched to a webpage it would click on any of the given check boxes. So say that

ARCR-3089739-1 is the number I am pulling from an excel file, I want power automate to click on the check box beside it based off the excel data. It's never in the exact same spot so it would need to be dynamic, I suppose.

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1. Use Extract data from web page and save that table into a variable.
2. Use Find or replace in data table into that variable that was extracted. Text to find is the ExcelData so in this case "ARCR-3089739-1"

That should return DataTableMatches -table that has one row.

Store the first rows first column (Row column) into "Ordinal" variable. Now we have the row number in a variable.

Capture the check box element to use in Click link on web page (or you could use Set check box state -action too).
Then open the element and find the Ordinal that tells which row it is:

Edit the element in Text Editor mode and use Ordinal -variable in the hard coded row numbers place. You need to have Text editor mode toggled on and save it like that otherwise PAD will forget the variable (long lasting bug in PAD that if Text editor is OFF then number attributes don't store variables)

In this example "Click link on web page" "Anchor 'Edit'" -element would be the checkbox element.

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NM-11112101-0 4 on at

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Thank you for your assistance!

However I am running into this error.

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