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How to insert DataTable into Excel

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Posted on by Ziad 17

I've been using PAD For month now, I've been using insane amount of functions just to write datatable to excel instance.

 

like there is no function to write the whole datatable to excel directly rather than going through loop and doing it row by row and column by column.

 

is there any way to simplify this

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    Ziad 17 on at

    NVM, it's when you post your question you end up finding the answer.

     

    it's not documented as DataTable to Excel that well just Write to excel.

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/actions-reference/excel#runmacro

     

    steps:

    - get first free row %ff%

    - write to excel function, just add the %ff% to the row and 1 to column and datatable to value to write

     

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    MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

    Set Datatable to clipboard text

    Then, Paste cells to Excel worksheet (choose the upper left cell)

     

    This should paste the datatable in Excel, all in one column, but on separate rows.  Then, use the Excel UIs to have PAD do Text to Columns based on the proper delimiter.

     

    Good luck!

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    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    You can just write the entire DataTable variable to Excel (row 1, column 1).

    Columns need to be added separately though by looping through %Table.ColumnNames% property. In such a case, you would write entire table to row 2, column 1 and add columns to row 1, column %Table.ColumnNames[index] + 1%.

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    finuex 2 on at

    I don't know if this helps you, but I have a suggestion, what if you save the table data into CSV, then you open the file using Excel?

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