September 2021
Intermediate
2h 33m
English
Overview
Automation has become ever more popular in the business world today as a means to maximize the speed and reliability of jobs to be done. Automation tools are great assets for work efficiency.
One such tool is Power Automate—a powerful application from Microsoft with a simple interface that can be used to automate tasks and business processes. It is an exhaustive program that can be connected to almost any application and can streamline personal or business workflows—without writing code! Automated workflows can even be shared with others.
This introductory course is aimed at beginner and intermediate users of Power Automate for Microsoft 365. The course uses the online version of the application for demonstration and covers Power Automate's basic and some intermediate features to get you started. Advanced features such as UI and desktop flows are beyond the scope of this course.
This course covers:
- How to navigate the Power Automate interface
- What is a flow, and what are the types of flow?
- Creating a flow from a template
- How to create an automated flow
- Running, editing, and tracking a flow
- Sharing flows with other users
- How to create a flow from scratch
- Creating triggers and actions
- Using dynamic content
- How to create expressions
- What are conditions?
- Create scheduled flows
- What is an approval flow?
- What are input types?
- An introduction to built-in functions
- Working with loops
- An overview of the Do-until function
- Using switch statements
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