New Excel actions in Power Automate Desktop

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Enabled for Public preview Early access General availability
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Aug 12, 2021

Business value

Users can now create more complex Excel automation flows with greater ease.

Feature details

This feature enables users to automate Excel-related functionality in a more convenient manner. Newly added functionality includes:

  • Find and replace dedicated action
  • Delete cells action
  • Get active cell action
  • Get column name action
  • New dedicated option in Read from Excel action to retrieve all populated cells

See also

Desktop actions reference - Excel (docs)