Excel

If you’ve ever needed to dynamically create an Excel file from data in Power Automate — maybe from a Copilot Studio agent, a SharePoint list, or an API response — you’ve probably realised there’s more than one way to skin this particular cat. In this post, I’m going to walk you through three different approaches to generating and populating an Excel file, each with its own strengths and trade-offs. I’ll be using a sample F1 2026 driver grid as my data, but this could just as easily be data passed from a Copilot Studio Agent, a Dataverse table, or any other source. ...

If you’ve been using Apply to Each loops to export Power BI data into Excel, you know how painfully slow that can be. In this post, I’ll show you two much faster and more reliable methods — Graph API and Office Scripts — that will transform how you bulk-load data into Excel with Power Automate. Method 1: Using Graph API The first method involves using Graph API. It’s a premium licensed method that invokes an HTTP request to the Graph API. The Graph API requires the site ID, the file ID, and the dynamic range of the data. ...

Need to split a large Excel workbook into multiple worksheets — or even separate files — based on a column value? With Office Scripts and Power Automate, you can automatically detect unique values in a key column, create a sheet for each one, and populate them with the relevant data in seconds. Furthermore, if you would rather unique workbooks for each of those distinct names, I’ve got a solution for that too and you could use the final script just to bulk load data into Excel efficiently, without using any add a row actions. ...

If you’re receiving daily or weekly Excel workbooks where the data isn’t formatted as a table, you’ll hit a wall trying to query it in Power Automate. The fix? Office Scripts. With a relatively simple piece of TypeScript, you can insert a Table into your Excel Worksheet. Not only can the script detect the used range of rows and columns but it can also run on a specific sheet and specifically name your table. If Table1 isn’t what you are looking for, call it as you please, all automatically, via Power Automate. ...

Want to generate charts from Excel data and automatically send them to Teams, email, or embed them in Word and PDF documents? In this post, I’ll show you how to use Office Scripts with Power Automate to create dynamic charts as images and distribute them however you need. These charts can be created and returned as images to Power Automate and then used in any document of your choice. Send the chart via Teams. Send the chart(s) to external users via email. Embed the charts into Word, HTML, or permanent PDF files using Premium or regular actions. ...

Ever wished you could populate an Excel invoice template as easily as a Word template in Power Automate? Excel doesn’t offer a built-in “Populate Template” action, but Office Scripts in Excel On the Web (currently in preview as of March 2021) changes everything. In this post, I’ll show you how to use TypeScript and Office Scripts to dynamically complete an Excel invoice via Power Automate. Watch the demo here ...