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Hi, i have set up a flow to trigger an email to someone based on an excel file.

In the formatting, i have the font set as Arial 12 and one sentence as Arial 11.

When i run the flow, the email that is received in Outlook has a smaller font size. When i go to edit the formatting again and if i go into code view the font size disappears.
I ran the flow twice with no changes, 1 email had the correct font size then the other had a smaller font size - but i made no changes..

i have tried the solutions in other posts and have been unsuccessful.
i have blurred my text in the images below, but it shows the beginning of the code

where am i going wrong? or is there a solution?

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WillPage 2,339 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Construct the HTML message body in a compose and then put that in the body input of the Send an email action. Don't let that cursed WYSWYG editor butcher your code!

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Thanks for the reply. In my flow I am using an 'Apply to each' with a 'Condition' to read an excel file and if it meets the criteria then it sends an email to that specific employee.
so when i do a compose before that action i am getting this error message:

Flow save failed with code 'InvalidTemplate' and message 'The template validation failed: 'The repetition action(s) 'Apply_to_each_2' referenced by 'inputs' in action 'Compose_-_email_body' are not defined in the template.'.'.

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Put the compose directly before the email, within the loop

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Thank you, i was - but i realised the code i was pasting in my compose - i needed to refresh the expressions as i copied from another flow.
so it worked now 😀
appreciate the help!

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Hi @WillPage , i just tried it again and it changed my text size again! even though i have the email in compose.. i have the font as 11 and it changed it to 8.5

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WillPage 2,339 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Have a look at the send email action. The button to toggle between code view and WYSIWYG might still be set to WYSIWYG. If so and you click the toggle you might see your dynamic content inside paragraph tags. You can remove those and leave it like that. Also it might help to include html head tags etc so the document you pass in is 100% valid html not just part of a body.

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thank you thank you thank you!!

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