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Power Automate Desktop Read Excel Cell with Date Issue

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Hello everyone,

 

I ran into an annoying issue today when I discovered that after a recent update(maybe) when Power Automate Desktop reads a date, like below, instead of reading just the date, it unnecessarily attaches the time to it as well. 

 

The main issue is that I need the program to read as is. Meaning, if the cell has 05/04/2022, it needs to read as such instead of attaching time to it as well. 

 

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The dates are sourced from a data table with the first date in the column set as =Today() and the remaining dates are set as prior cell + 1.

 

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How do I get Power Automate to stop attaching dates?

 

 

 

  • MichaelAnnis Profile Picture
    5,727 Moderator on at

    You can “change datetime to text” as custom format M/d/yyyy

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    VJR Profile Picture
    7,635 on at

    Check by enabling this option

     

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