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Removing unwanted UI elements from 'Click UI element in window action' and Clicking UI element

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Hi everyone,
Few days back I started with creation of flow in Power Automate Desktop (PAD) for automating one small manual task (which is saving Power BI Project file to a Power BI file {*.pbix}), during the testing phase I ended up creating multiple UI elements, and I have not found any option to remove or delete them. So I did find a documenation which demonstrated using right click or '...' we can remove the element, but I could not find any such option.
Documentation: Remove existing UI elements

So any idea how to clear the unwanted UI elements?.

The other query that I had was: I am facing some issue to click UI element on screen to be precise in Power BI Desktop: (I need to open File menu -> Then click on 'Save as' option -> Browse this device); so currently I am able to open the Power BI desktop- File menu but the rest of the steps where I am not able to proceed with. For the two clicks I am making use of 'Click UI element in window' unlike File menu which gets easily highlighted the 'Save as' doesn't and even after clicking on it properly when the flow runs it does not seem to click it.

But when I try to select the Save as option (it gets treated within the window)

So just to navigate to the 'Save as' option I even tried to use the 'Send keys action' by using the 'Down arrow key' (4 times) like: but even that did not work

So any idea how to resolve these issues, I would really appreciate the inputs from the community folks.

Regards,
Sidhant.

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VishnuReddy1997 2,656 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @Sidhant_22,

Please find the solution.

Query 1 : Please follow the steps as shown in below image.

Query 2: Can you use Foreground window instead UI elements in Send keys action as shown in below image.

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Vishnu Reddy

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Nived_Nambiar 18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @Sidhant_22

For the first question, i believe u have to do it from UI Elements pane to delete the UI Elements.

For your second question , i believe there are some POWER BI actions in cloud flow - can't those be utilized ? - i hope that makes things easier

Thanks & Regards,
Nived N

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Sidhant_22 38 on at

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Hi @VishnuReddy1997 and @Nived_Nambiar,
Thanks for the response, I was able to find out the UI element pane thanks to @VishnuReddy1997 for sharing the snaps and the directions that really helped. And also for the send key action was able to send the right key strokes after using : {Down:4}.
I just had one doubt: Right now I am using the 'Click on UI element window action' to click on File menu which is:

Defined the UI element in PAD (Power Automate Desktop)

This seems to do the job but in some cases it is not able to find the given UI element (for some reason), so then I found out there is another way to open the File menu which is by key strokes: Press Alt -> then F -> (and to click on File menu) 'Enter'
So I was trying to send the key strokes like: {Alt}({F}){Enter}, but this did not work, so could you please help here.

Regards,
Sidhant

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