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Power Apps Crash Course
Rating: 4.5 out of 5(16 ratings)
1,062 students

Power Apps Crash Course

Learn the fundamentals of Power Apps while building 3 apps!
Created byNRDTEK Academy
Last updated 4/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Understand the basics of Power Apps: Gain a solid understanding of what Power Apps is, its purpose, and how it can be utilized to create powerful and intuitive
  • Integrate Excel as a data source: Learn how to connect Power Apps with an Excel spreadsheet, establish a connection, retrieve data, and update records in the sp
  • Test and troubleshoot your app: Learn strategies to test your todo app thoroughly, identify and resolve potential issues, and ensure a smooth user experience be
  • Publish and deploy your app: Gain practical knowledge on publishing your Power App and making it accessible on different devices, such as mobile phones, so that

Course content

3 sections • 42 lectures • 2h 25m total length

  • Introduction1:57

    This is a brief introduction to Power Apps. I cover what Power Apps is, why it's useful to know, and why you should enroll in this course.

  • Setting up Office 3651:37

    Before you can start using Power Apps, you will first need to sign up for an Office 365 account. In this lecture I go over how to do this and what type of subscription you'll need in order to get access to Power Apps.

  • Setting up Excel as a database3:13

    There are many different databases available to use within Power Apps, with one of the simplest being Microsoft Excel. In this lesson, we'll go over how to set up Excel as a database for our apps.

  • Generating a 3-screen app2:23

    Power Apps makes it very simple to set up your first CRUD app, and that is what we'll do in this lesson. It will be a 3-screen app that has a summary page, a detail page, and an edit page.

  • Running the app5:09

    Running a Power Apps application in the browser is as simple as clicking the play button. In this lesson we'll run this app for the first time, and go over all of the main features of the app.

  • Customizing our app2:50

    In this lesson, we'll begin to add our own style to the app we've created. Power Apps makes this very simple by providing properties that we can edit to customize our app to suit our needs.

  • The Editing Environment3:33

    Before we get to far in building out our app, it's important to gain a solid grasp of the editing environment in Power Apps. We'll go over tree view, as well as many of the various elements and properties that are available to edit in the Power Apps environment.

  • Displaying Content Using Functions and Formulas4:34

    Many of the same functions and formulas that exist in Microsoft Excel are also available in Power Apps. We'll go over how to start using functions and formulas in order to make our app more dynamic.

  • The Detail Screen2:51

    In this lesson we'll go over the elements in the detail screen of our application.

  • Forms3:52

    An overview of forms in Power Apps.

  • The Edit Screen and more forms5:10

    An overview of the edit screen of our app as well as more discussion about forms in Power Apps.

  • Updating a Trigger3:00

    In this lesson we will go over triggers in Power Apps, and we'll update a trigger in one of our forms.

  • Publishing our app1:06

    How to publish an app in Power Apps as well as how to run it on your phone using the Power Apps mobile application.

  • Bonus0:19

Requirements

  • No prerequisites or programming experience required
  • No paid software needed, we will use a free trial of Office 365
  • A computer and an internet connection
  • A positive attitude and eagerness to learn

Description

GET CERTIFIED TODAY!

After completing this course, you will receive a certificate of completion indicating that you are Power Apps Certified, and you can add this certificate to your resume, LinkedIn, or other online profiles.


What is Power Apps?

Power Apps is a tool created by Microsoft that enables users to create useful applications quickly, without needing to know how to code. Since it allows non-programmers to create applications, it has quickly become one of the most popular frameworks for creating apps that improve business efficiency.


Why Power Apps?

  • It’s Microsoft: Since Power Apps was built by Microsoft, it has a familiar and intuitive interface for anyone that has used Office products like Excel or Word

  • Easy to Learn: Power Apps is a low code framework, which means you can create sophisticated applications using a simple drag and drop environment

  • Rapid Application Development (RAD): Power Apps allows you to create applications in a fraction of the time it would take using other popular frameworks like React or Angular

  • Valuable Skill: This highly sought after skill will make you an attractive candidate for a job or could even help you get a raise in your current role

  • Cross Platform: Power Apps can run on any device, Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, or iOS, so you don’t have to worry about building out several different versions of your apps

  • Connect to any data source: Whether you prefer Excel, SQL Server, Google Sheets, or PostgreSQL, Power Apps has you covered with built in connections to almost any data source


Why take this course over another?

  • Crash Course: Have you ever started a course and noticed that after watching an hour or more of content you still haven’t learned anything? Well, not this course. There is absolutely no fluff, just valuable content

  • Top Rated: The reviews speak for themselves, but if you’re still not convinced, there is also Udemy’s 30-day money-back guarantee, there is literally nothing to lose

  • Expert Instructor: With over a decade of experience working in technology, and expertise in a wide range of topics from analytics to software development, you can rest assured that you are learning from the best

  • Hands-on learning: No boring theory, just hands on learning building an actual application right from the start


What is covered in this course?

  • How to generate your first app in minutes: That’s right, within the first few minutes of the course you will already have built your first app

  • Running your app in the browser: Whether you’re using Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, or something else, it doesn’t matter, you will learn how to run your app in the browser

  • Connecting to Excel: Using the built-in connections, we will go over how you can use Excel as a database for a full-fledged application

  • Customizing your app: The built-in styles of Power Apps are nice, but we’ll go over how you can make your app truly your own, by changing the theme and customizing it however you like

  • Formulas and Functions: Much like Excel, Power Apps also makes use of formulas and functions to help with displaying data, and we’ll cover this critical topic in detail

  • Triggers: We’ll go over how to respond to specific user events in Power Apps, such as the click of a button, using triggers

  • Forms: No software development course would be complete without covering forms, we’ll go over the specifics of how they work in Power Apps

  • How to publish your app: Many other courses fall short here, they show you how to build an app, but not how to publish it so that others can use it, we’ll go over how to publish an app with Power Apps and how to run it on your phone

  • Creating a Power Apps Theme and Templates: You will learn best practices for how to structure your app so that future changes will be much simpler

  • Power Apps Navigation: We will build out a navigation system for a website with an intuitive look and feel, all from scratch

  • Adding new pages in Power Apps: We will go over how to duplicate pages using the templates we’ve created so that everything in our app is linked to the theme

  • Adding and Customizing Galleries: We will add and customize a gallery to display data in a logical way

  • The “Search” Function: This is one of the most powerful functions in Power Apps, and we will use it to create a search bar to search within our gallery

  • The “Filter” Function: This function allows us to filter a data source in Power Apps according to any criteria we specify

  • The “LookUp” Function: Similar to the VLookUp function in Excel, Power Apps provides the LookUp function so that we can look up values from a second table

  • The “Remove” Function: This is the function used to delete a record from a data source in Power Apps, we will go over how to use this function and will integrate it into our app

  • Adding multiple data sources: In Power Apps, you are not constrained to simply using one table as your data source, we will go over how to add more data sources so that you can create complex applications

  • Variables in Power Apps: We will go over how variables work, how they are different in Power Apps compared to other programming languages, as well as the 3 main types of variables 1. Context Variables, 2. Global Variables, and 3. Collections, we will go over examples of how to use all three

  • Building a Modal: We will go over how to build a modal from scratch in Power Apps, which will improve the user experience drastically

  • Date comparisons in Power Apps: Using the function DateDiff, as well as other date functions like Today, Date, Year, Month, and Day

  • How to open external apps from within Power Apps: We will go over several examples of how to use the Launch function to open applications like phone, email, websites, and other Power Apps applications

  • Populating dropdowns from a table: This can be a tricky topic because by default, Power Apps doesn’t filter out duplicates, so we’ll go over how to do this the right way

  • Cascading dropdowns: By learning how to implement this advanced feature, you will take the user experience of your apps to the next level!

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone interested in building apps without having to write code

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