Power Automate Desktop for Beginners - 2021 Edition

Navigate the Power Platform ecosystem, including Power Automate, cloud flows, and desktop automation, exploring API vs UI automation, attended and unattended automation, and free for all users.

Explore actions and recorders in Power Automate Desktop, including action groups, variables, error handling, and web, UI, and desktop automation, with practical recording and flow control techniques.

Explore flow, input, and output variables in power automate desktop, then master UI elements, selectors, and image-based actions to interact with apps and automate tasks.

Organize Power Automate Desktop flows with subflows and use run a sub flow to trigger them, then use breakpoints and the debug tab to pause and inspect variables.

Learn variables and waits to control flow, manage lists and data types, and implement event-driven waits with Power Automate Desktop actions across apps.

Learn conditional logic in Power Automate Desktop using if, else if, and else, plus switch with a default case, to build robust checks like image existence.

Master loops in Power Automate Desktop, using for each, index-based and while loops with variables and list access, plus exit and next controls to manage flow.

Explore flow control in Power Automate Desktop, including run flow, end, label, go to, and on block error; learn how to structure sub flows and use comments effectively.

Discover how messages and user input work in Power Automate Desktop, including display message, display input dialog, and file or folder prompts, with notes on sequential inputs.

Master web and desktop data extraction in Power Automate Desktop by pulling values from pages, filling forms, and navigating with CSS selectors, UI elements, and paging.

Learn to automate web form filling in power automate desktop, using the web recorder to populate texts, set checkboxes or radio buttons, select dropdown values, and press buttons.

Discover how to extract data from a window and fill desktop forms using Power Automate Desktop, covering text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns, and buttons.

Learn keyboard and mouse actions in Power Automate Desktop, including move mouse to image, move mouse to text, and send keys, with image-based navigation and OCR tips.

Master image based navigation in power automate desktop, capturing images, waiting for them, and clicking with offsets, tolerance, search modes, and OCR text extraction.

Discover the May 2021 image based recorder update in Power Automate Desktop, enabling image based navigation for virtual machines and Citrix, with new image recording button and behavior.

Master how power automate desktop integrates with excel through built-in actions to launch, read, apply formulas across ranges, paste values, delete columns, and automate common spreadsheet tasks.

Explore Power Automate Desktop file and folder actions for creating, moving, and organizing files. Use temporary file, write and read text, and verify folders to manage content.

Explore Power Automate Desktop pdf actions to extract text and images from pdfs, split pdf pages into new files, and merge pdf documents, with practical directory handling.

Explore error handling and rules in Power Automate Desktop, perform a single-action list search with remove by value, and use error rules to set a found variable.

Plan your final project by solving a real world problem with Power Automate Desktop, automating data movement between systems to save time and boost efficiency.

Organize complex flows by function, document processes, split into modular subflows under 50 steps, and plan for web automation, desktop automation, and image-based automation with air handling.

Explore advanced action groups, API builder, and process advisor to extend Power Automate Desktop skills, try AI builder capabilities, and consider UI Path and Automation Anywhere for future learning.

Celebrate completing the course and your final project, and start using Power Automate Desktop to create tangible daily improvements. Continue your automation journey and stay tuned for new topics.