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Posted on by Dillon1 12

Hi, I'm having some difficulties finding a solution for this issue. 

 

When I try to create a power automate flow to grab data from an email attached excel doc and place it into another excel doc's table I'm not sure how to ignore specific rows or parameters for rows/columns. Is there a way to grab only cells that have data AND ignore the first 20 rows in the doc I'm pulling from?

 

Thank you for any help anyone could provide!

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    momlo 1,527 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Hi @Dillon1 

    I prefer to use SQL to grab data, but this might be too early for you (although I recommend trying).

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/how-to/sql-queries-excel

     

    In your case, if you are using Excel actions, there might be a couple of ways such as:

     

    Get the first free row and first free column, and read data from the cells: From row 21 to the first free row minus 1. Then use the data table action to find free rows in the table and delete these rows.

     

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