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How to convert a docx file to PDF located on Sharepoint and send as an attachment

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Posted on by CU30050649-1 49
Hi,
 
I have a flow which sends an email with a file as an attachment from Sharepoint. File has .docx extension which needs to be converted to pdf and attached to emails.
 
I'm looking to convert the file without saving the pdf on Sharepoint. There is a convert file connector which looks at OneDrive for files, I'm not keen on storing the files on OneDrive, looking for other options which could help me pick up the file from SP.
 
Steps include:
 
Manually Trigger a flow
List rows present in a table
Initialize variable
Condition (AKEB)
Get File content (Welcome Secondary)
Get file content (TOR Secondary)
Send an email V2 (Email Secondary)
Update a row (Update Secondary)
 
 
Thank you in advance.
 
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    Nived_Nambiar Profile Picture
    Nived_Nambiar 18,136 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
     
    Onedrive action does supports of converting file type to another format , in your case from docx to pdf. So one approach would be to create the same file in sharepoint temporarily in onedrive and deleting it after the email has been sent by bot.
     
    see below how this can be done
     
    1. use get file content to get docx file content
     
    2. Use create file action to create the same file in onedrive in any temporary folder which you have created.
     
    3. Use convert file action to convert to pdf format
     
    4. Use send email action to send the pdf attachment like below 
     
     
    5. Next delete an file in onedrive which has been temporarily created.
     
     

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    Thank you.
     
    This was exactly what i was looking for.
     
    Thank you

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