Conclusion

Congratulations! Unless you’re the kind of person who likes to read the last chapter of a mystery before reading the full book, you’ve just finished learning about what Power Automate is and how it can help improve efficiency and accuracy in your work. As you’ve seen, Power Automate can create flows that turn mundane, boring, and repetitive tasks into automated tasks that run on their own. This will free you up to concentrate on tasks that are more interesting and that generate more value for you and your organization.

This book has taken you on a journey that I’m convinced will change how you manage information from now on. But the journey doesn’t end here. Now it’s time to start looking at the information you manually process each day and start using Power Automate flows to make those tasks easier. I’m sure you’ll encounter a few bumps along the way, as we all do, but I’m convinced that you’ve learned enough in this book to begin that next stage of your journey.

There is another reason why this isn’t the end of the road for your learning experience: Power Automate is always evolving with new features, triggers, and actions. Microsoft is constantly changing and expanding the capabilities of the platform. These changes are both exciting and challenging. They’re exciting because they let you expand the way you use Power Automate. But they’re also challenging because, as time passes, things that used to work will stop working due to the changes. This means you’ll sometimes ...

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