Power Automate for Beginners

Imagine a day where you open your email’s inbox and find useful details about the tweets containing a keyword of your interest. Or, a moment when you only have to upload a file to your team’s shared folder and all the members automatically receive an email with this update. This is like having an assistant who understands your needs and saves your time by performing those essential, but repetitive tasks. In the first module of this course you will be introduced to Power Automate. Why do we need it? How do we access Power Automate? Is it free? What does its interface look like? Simple and short video tutorials provide answers to these questions. You will learn about workflows, triggers and actions as you understand the key features of Power Automate. The hands-on tutorials help you to experience the power and simplicity of this tool.

Next, you learn to create a workflow from a template. A workflow is a system to manage repetitive processes and tasks in a specific order. Master editing them to suit your requirements and how to track as well as share a flow. The tutorials have relevant examples to help you to understand the functions of Power Automate, which has a selection of hundreds of templates to create a flow. You will get clarity on actions and triggers in a workflow along with the Power Automate interface. It has left and horizontal menus with tutorials explaining the functions of the key buttons on them. It guides you on how to check for errors and warnings while editing a flow. You will also learn the accessibility options available to all the owners with whom the workflow is shared.

In the final module, you will learn about automated flow, creating a flow from scratch and dynamic content. The web-based service provided by Microsoft allows you to create automated workflows between your favourite apps. It is an easy-to-use drag-and-drop tool with hundreds of templates and pre-built connectors that does not entail any coding knowledge. You will dive further into the Power Automate interface to learn to create triggers and actions along with using the dynamic content. You can add this skill to your resume and save precious time and effort in completing repetitive and mundane tasks. Dynamic 21st century workplaces demand professionals with such software skills so take the lead and be well armed to move ahead in your professional journey!