Intro
Power Automate Desktop is straightforward to use. Here’s how.
If you haven’t installed Power Automate Desktop, you should do that first.
Learning Objectives
- Automate, how to
- Open a browser
- Type into a browser
- Click buttons in a browser
- Web scrape an element
- Light Excel work
- Variables
Description
- Download the course Excel file
- Read the CVR number in the ‘A2’ cell in the ‘1. Companies 1 Data’
- Open a Chrome browser (or Edge if you prefer)
- Navigate to https://datacvr.virk.dk/
- Click English in the upper right corner
- Do a search with the number from ‘A2’
- Extract the company name from the result page
- Write the result back to the ‘B2’ cell
- Close the browser
- Close Excel
Hints
- To make our automation bulletproof, we can check whether or not we are on the English page before we click the link
- Use the ‘If web page contains’ action
Additional Material
You can find the entire Power Automate for Desktop course here.