Learning Microsoft Power Automate

Chapter 1. What Is Microsoft Power Automate?

Working for an organization is…well, it’s work. Even if you have a job doing what you love, there are still a lot of repetitive, manual, and time-consuming tasks. You may have to process reports or invoices that are sent to you by email and enter them into an accounting system. Or you may have to fill out travel expense reports and send them to someone for approval. Or you may have to take old files and information and move them to archive locations to make room for more up-to-date information. Every job includes processing information and distributing it to the right people and places. Frequently, these mundane tasks can keep you from doing the parts of your job that you love or growing your abilities by learning new things.

Welcome to this introduction on how to use Microsoft Power Automate to automate tasks in your daily work life. You’re about to take your first steps on a journey that will change the way you handle information every day. But, like all journeys, we need to start at the beginning. That means we need to understand what Power Automate is and how it fits into the broader Microsoft ecosystem.

Power Automate is a cloud-based application that can be used to create workflows. These cloud-based workflows (flows) use connectors to access information stored in a variety of systems. Using these connectors, you can take manual tasks and convert them to automated workflows. Here are just a few examples of the ways in which Power ...