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How to add text from webpage to Word doc and then replace a portion of that text?

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Title says it all. I am trying to capture some text from a webpage. Then once that text is captured I would like to add that text to a Word document. I would then like to replace a certain portion of that text with alternate text.

I was able to do this fairly easily in PA Desktop using .txt files in notepad. However to get it to specifically work in Word has proved more difficult. Neither PA Cloud nor Desktop have a ton of useful actions to interact with Word. So far I have gotten to the following:

1.) Use AI builder to extract text from the webpage

2.) Use "populate a Word template" to get the text into the Word doc

3.) ***Here is where I am stuck, what is a way I can replace the text with alternate text in the Word document?????

Any tips?

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Heartholme 1,278 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Greetings @r_compton

This is quite easily achieveable.

- Enable Developer tab in your MS word.

- Add the text you want to replace

- Mark the text

- Click the Aa symbol (has to be the 'low' quality one)

- Then hit properties and add the text field name.

- Populate this in your POpulate word document action.

Then in PowerAutomate:

Let me know how it goes!

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r_compton 8 on at

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Hi thank you for the response,

This part worked for me well. However, I also need to search the text in the populated MS Word document, find a specific sentence, and replace that sentence with alternate text. Is there a way to do this?

Thank you.

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Heartholme 1,278 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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@r_compton

That is somewhat possible, but not quite in an flexible way. You'd have to mark every sentence in your word document like above, and connect that with a variable (or Array varialbe), and put the variables in the word document. Then you should set the variable you want to change to your desired output.

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