Power Automate Desktop Tutorial for Beginners [2024]

Learn the fundamentals of Microsoft Power Automate Desktop in our beginner-friendly tutorial for 2024. This complete guide is tailored for individuals who want to automate Excel, Outlook, Web browsers, Files, and more.

Starting with the installation process, we ensure you correctly set up Power Automate Desktop to maximize your everyday use. The tutorial covers:

🔸 Excel Automation: Learn how to automate repetitive Excel tasks, from data entry to complex calculations, enhancing productivity and accuracy.
🔸 Web Browser Automation: Dive into automating Chrome/Edge for tasks like form submissions and data extraction, making web-based workflows effortless.
🔸 Web Scraping: Uncover the power of web scraping to gather information from the internet automatically, a vital skill in today's data-driven world.
🔸 File Management: Master the automation of file and folder operations, ensuring your documents are always organized without manual intervention.
🔸 Outlook Automation: Discover how to automate your email tasks with Outlook.
🔸 Excel Chart Creation with Copilot: Explore the innovative use of Copilot to automate the creation of Excel charts, turning data visualization into a simple, quick task.

The tutorial is designed with simplicity in mind, using drag-and-drop actions and low-code solutions that make automation accessible to everyone. Whether you're looking to automate tasks for personal use or to enhance efficiency in your professional role, this video is your gateway to learning Power Automate Desktop.

By the end of this tutorial, you will be comfortable with the basics of Power Automate Desktop and have the skills to implement automation in real-world scenarios, improving your productivity and work quality.

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 Install Power Automate Desktop
00:03:40 Your first PAD flow
00:06:38 Recorder
00:12:19 Portfolio Complete Project
00:17:19 Excel
00:27:02 Web Automation
00:36:15 Web Scraping to Excel
00:46:00 Troubleshoot Excel in Power Automate Desktop
00:49:00 Dynamic File Naming
01:01:26 Excel charts with Copilot
01:08:37 Outlook
01:12:30 File work

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[dmitrigarbuzenko]

Thank you, Anders! I wish your channel and business significant growth. Mange Tak!

[andersjensenorg]

Your support and likes mean everything, thanks ❤️🙌

[kavumadouglas]

Thanx Anders, my first time trying to use Power automate and it has been so helpful. Looking forward to learn more from you.

[TbvngM]

Thank you for Anders. You have been my life saver for over a year now! May your channel Grow! 🤖

[swapnil]

As always you have been helpful to make one more tool understand easily by covering all the Major functionalities for files and Excel operations

[mikedipirro]

Excellent overall introduction. You covered a wide range of functionality in a very thought out way. Clear and easy to understand while still teaching best practices. Thank you.

[amytippett]

This was great, my boss asked me to learn about Power Automate, something I knew very little about. This video broke things down and was very informative and helpful.

[Fedgery]

Great video! I’m currently learning UiPath at my full time job but taking a look at this tool just to learn and might use it for anything personal I might come up with!

This workflow is so similar to UiPath so it was very easy for me to follow along.

[huggybear]

Great explanation and approach. Thank you.

[calvinjeng]

Your videos help me a lot, thank you very much

[aftabahmed]

I'm amazed with the results! Thanks Aders <3

[mr_bobo]

You are amazing! Thank you for your time and effort. Your videos are much better than what I found and paid for on Udemy. You've truly exceeded my expectations, and I've learned so much from you. Keep up the great work!

[rhadisubrata]

Thank you so much for the tutorial it helps me a lot.

[anibalrangel]

Excelent vídeo, waiting for a course to be able to use Power Automate in the best form.

[RonDavidowicz]

Great video… I’ve played around with power automate before, but didn’t really know what I was doing! It’s great to have some structure on how to use it.

In future videos will you be showing how to get this automation to run automatically?

[srkvocals]

Hello Jensen, its really cool tutorial thanks for that, by watching your tutorial I have practiced two times completed the episode well but unable to remember all the actions like variables etc., any suggestion to get hands on please let me know.

[kuagoo]

Hi Anders, Thanks for your great tutorial. I have one question. Do you know why my Power Automate does not have Copilot?

[bhavikkothari]

Hi Anders! Thank you for the video. It was very helpful for a beginner like me. Just wanted to one thing while I was double clicking any variable instead of displaying "%variableName%", it was displaying "=VariableName". due to which when I created a data table it was not possible for me to refer the column in it. can you please guide.

[madskamstrup]

Thank you for a good tutorial Anders! I have a question to the section where we get the subtext of the current stock price. In the tutorial your system reads the current price in a format of currency followed by the price in a text format. My run read the data in a format of current price followed by the currency. How do I change the setup that you made in the tutorial to keep the first part of the subtext, and delete the trailing $-sign?

[LASTRIKE]

Thank you for the video. One question. In UiPath, there is Re-framework. Is there something similar in Power Automate? If no, why should I use Power Automate instead of UiPath?