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Power Automate Desktop changing date and number formatting in Excel

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Posted on by JohanLaas

Hi all

I have a simple bot that opens Excel, presses the refresh all button and close the Excel document. 
Once this is done, the number and date formatting is changed. 

My number formatting is changed to having negatives show in brackets.

The date formatting keeps reverting to American standard - mm/dd/yyyy and it should be yyyy/mm/dd.

 

Any advice will be greatly appreciated. 

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    AS-06081019-0 1,736 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    @JohanLaas  Could you please try running PAD script by making excel instance as not visible, check if it solves your issue.

     

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