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In a Power Automate Desktop web automation flow, I am automating text input into a search field.

The flow retrieves rows from an Excel file and iterates through them using a "For Each" loop, where each value is obtained one by one using "CurrentItem."

However, even though "CurrentItem" retrieves the data correctly, the input into the web search field sometimes results in strange characters or missing inputs, leading to search errors. For example, "GPBU" is input as "GPぶ," or "/" fails to be input.

When I perform this process manually (without PAD), "GPBU" and "/" can be entered and searched correctly.

What could be causing this issue, and how can it be resolved?

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eetuRobo 4,204 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Can you show screenshot of your flow?

Since you are most likely looping through a datatable the CurrentItem will be a datatable row. So make sure you reference the column that has the value you want to input into a search field. How does your CurrentItem look like and how are you inputing it into the search field?

Does the populate text field on webpage look like this:

Here is an example where I am taking the second column (index 1 since the indexing starts from 0). You could also refer to it by the column name %CurrentItem['Column2']%

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CU13020414-0 4 on at

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Sorry, the flow is in Japanese since I am a Japanese user.

Due to company privacy policies, I can only share part of the screenshot, but in this case, only one column is being read from ExcelData, so there is only one column. The CurrentItem is in the form of a DataRow.

The "Populate text field on web page" action looks the same as the one in your example. However, as shown in the web search page in the bottom right corner, characters like / are being converted to J or are disappearing altogether.

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CU13020414-0 4 on at

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This has been resolved.

It turned out that the input was set to Japanese hiragana.

Thank you for your response.

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