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Hello,

I created flow which populates a Word document

it has an approval flow, which after approved, I want to update the same word document created in the earlier steps.

I cannot update the same word file however. Please help!

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Re: Update the already created word document in the same flow

Thanks a ton Deepak, it worked!!
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Re: Update the already created word document in the same flow

Hi @Anonymous , In the second "Populate word document" action, you are using "File object" as in input "File" properties. You should use the file's path, not the file itself(it should be the same as your first Populate word document action.
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