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Democratizing RPA with Power Automate Desktop

You're reading from   Democratizing RPA with Power Automate Desktop Boost your productivity by implementing best practices for automating repetitive desktop processes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803245942
Length 308 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Peter Krause Peter Krause
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Power Automate Desktop 2. Chapter 2: Using Power Automate Desktop and Creating Our First Flow FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Editing and Debugging UI Flows 4. Chapter 4: Basic Structure Elements and Flow Control 5. Chapter 5: Variables, UI Elements, and Images 6. Chapter 6: Actions for UI Automation 7. Chapter 7: Automate Your Desktop and Workstation 8. Chapter 8: Automating Standard Business Applications 9. Chapter 9: Leveraging Cloud Services and Power Platform 10. Chapter 10: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence 11. Chapter 11: Working with APIs and Services 12. Chapter 12: PAD Enterprise Best Practices 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Power Automate Desktop and Creating Our First Flow

In the previous chapter, we saw how Power Automate Desktop (PAD) was born and how powerful the tool can be for automating repetitive tasks. In this chapter, we will take a detailed look into the following:

  • What is necessary for installing PAD on a local machine
  • How the application is built up
  • How to create our first flow by using the built-in recorder

To use PAD effectively, a basic understanding of the application is essential, as we will spend most of our time on the very areas presented here. Also, knowledge of the PAD recorder will be extremely helpful throughout this book because it can also save us a lot of time when creating flows. Now, let’s look at how we can get PAD running on our computers.

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Democratizing RPA with Power Automate Desktop
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Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781803245942
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