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Hi,

I have a Sharepoint library where we keep all our quotes that we send out to customers. I have recently upgraded the library with a template using word quickparts so that all of the important data from the quote is stored as metadata in the library going forward. What I would like to do now is extract the same data from all of our old quote letters to fill in the columns.

 

Is there a way to use power automate to search a document for a certain text string (total price for example) and update the file properties with the values it found?

 

Thanks.

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  • Nived_Nambiar Profile Picture
    18,136 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @JFras 

     

    Are you talking about the word 'Total value' to be search in word document ?

  • JFras Profile Picture
    29 on at

    No, sorry. I want to find the dollar value that appears in the document. ie somewhere in the document there will be a price listed. it will be in the form of a dollar sign, "$", followed by a number with two decimal places. I want to get this number and update a column with the information.

     

    I will need to ignore some formatting, specifically spaces. In the past we have always entered numbers with a space after the $ and used spaces for thousands and millions separators. for example $5,000.00 would be written as "$ 5 000.00" or 1.2M would be written as "$ 1 200 000.00"

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