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How can I avoid power automate from reading duplicate values in my excel spreadsheet?

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I am trying to have power automate read some values from an excel spreadsheet. There are some duplicates values and I am trying to prevent power automate from reading those values because it seems that errors occur when reading those duplicate values. There is a select query under advanced options but I am unsure how to use it so that I only non-duplicate values are read.

 

 
 

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    Hi @alopez222 :

    Don't you need to get duplicate rows in the table? If so, I'm afraid that the advanced options of 'List rows present in a table' do not provide such an option. However you could try the 'Union' function to achieve it.

    I've made a test for your reference:

    1\My table:

    vbofengmsft_0-1643868673803.png

    2\My flow

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    expression:

    union(body('Select'),body('Select'))
    

    The Result(Duplicates have been filtered out):

    vbofengmsft_1-1643868691979.png

    Best Regards,

    Bof

     

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