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Power Automate Desktop 2-day training course

Two days (09:30 to 16:30 UK time each day)

This course is available in the following formats (all prices exclude VAT):

Classroom (London)
£1,350 Classroom (Manchester)
£995 Onsite (your office)
Please ask Online (your home)
£825
You can book a place on this course either online through this website, by phone, by email or by filling in our enquiry form.

To attend this course you need to be a regular user of Windows.  You will get more out of the course if you're familiar with the basics of the main Microsoft Office applications.

Course schedule

Here are our next few Power Automate Desktop course dates:

Dates Times Venue Price (excl. VAT)
28-29 May 09:30-16:30 Online £825 Book
19-20 Jun 09:30-16:30 Online £825 Book
25-26 Jul 09:30-16:30 Online £825 Book
20-21 Aug 09:30-16:30 Online £825 Book
19-20 Sep 09:30-16:30 Online £825 Book
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Got a handful of like-minded people in your organisation? You could consider booking your own customised onsite course, whereby you get to pick the dates and venue!

Course Contents - PDF

Power Automate Desktop training course contents

Power Automate Desktop is Microsoft's Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software. It allows you to automate anything you do in Windows, including (but by no means limited to):

  • sending emails

  • printing

  • working with Excel

  • browsing websites

  • filling in forms

Think of it as like the Windows equivalent of VBA, allowing you to automate things that you do (you can even record what you're doing as a sequence of replayable steps), but with no programming involved. 

This two-day course will give practical examples of many of the most common tasks that you might want to automate (we hope!), and also explain underlying concepts of Power Automate Desktop such as variables, lists, data tables, UI elements, conditions and loops.

The contents of this course are as follows:

Getting started

  • Creating flows
  • Comments
  • Input and message boxes

Variables

  • Referring to variables
  • Managing variables
  • Viewing variable values

Subflows

  • Creating subflows
  • Running subflows

Debugging

  • Stepping through flows
  • Setting breakpoints

Working with Excel

  • Opening and closing
  • Getting and writing data
  • Other Excel actions

Error handling

  • Testing buttons, files, etc.
  • Error-handling for actions
  • Error blocks for flows

Input and output variables

  • Calling flows
  • Filling output varaibles
  • Referencing input variables

Lists

  • Populating lists
  • Looping over lists
  • Adding to and clearing lists

Loops

  • Looping N times
  • Conditonal loops
  • Looping over collections

Conditions

  • Testing conditions (IF)
  • Multiple conditions (SWITCH)

SQL Server

  • Opening connections
  • Reading data
  • Running stored procedures

Data tables and rows

  • Populating data tables
  • Looping over data rows
  • Collapsing data columns

Files and folders

  • Manipulating files
  • Working with folders
  • Reading / writing text files
  • Using CSV files

Different data types

  • Getting the date
  • Converting dates to text
  • Testing for numeric input

Mouse and keyboard

  • Sending keys
  • Mouse clicks

Browsing websites

  • Using different browsers
  • UI elements
  • Problems you may encounter
  • Extracting data

User intefaces (UIs)

  • UI elements revisited
  • Capturing data
  • Filling in forms

Emails and Outlook

  • Using Outlook
  • Sending emails
  • Extracting attachments

Images

  • Adding images
  • Using in website automation
  • Deleting unused images

PDFs

  • Reading tables and text
  • Reading images

Recording flows

  • Recording your steps
  • Limitations of recording

Case studies   if time

  • Backing up files
  • Emailing files to different users
  • Compiling SEO results
Please see further up this page for what you should know beforehand (if anything) in order to attend this course.

Why Choose Us?

Here are some reasons to choose Wise Owl courses:

In addition, here are some benefits unique to classroom training:

And some benefits specific to online training:

  • Courseware manual posted to you in advance
  • Free half-hour pre-course check-up included
  • Our clever system means you can use our laptops (and we can see them)

What other people have said

Our thanks to everyone who agreed to share their thoughts. All of the following reviews are from the last 3 calendar years:

"The course was very understandable and the trainer was very friendly and funny."

Lucy Ellams (Halton Borough Council)

"The trainer kept me interested the whole time and had her way of explaining things I wasn't quite sure of. Excellent teacher. I have always struggled with formulas so I wanted to get some more experience."

Sara Rowland (Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA))

"Very good course - very well delivered, with information given in digestible chunks and learned a lot of very useful tools and techniques. Instructor was very clear and explained each concept well. Would recommend this course."

Oliver Staunton (UK Research & Innovation (UKRI))

"Training session was great, if anything I slightly found the remote sessions a bit better than when I went to Manchester for the in class training sessions. Great trainer. I have previously used Wise Owl course and they were great."

Paul Martin (Ashton Sixth Form College)

"Our trainer was friendly and personable and delivered the course well. We have used Wise Owl as a training provider in the past and have found the course content and delivery to a high standard. Would and have recommended to others. Will be booking members of my team on a variety of courses with Wise Owl in the coming weeks."

Chris Waddington (Ultimate Products Global Sourcing (UPGS))

There are lots more where these came from (or just refresh this page to change the quotes shown).

How our training courses work

Below are some notes on how Wise Owl courses work, to help you decide whether they're for you or not.

What you'll need

If you book on a classroom course, the only thing you need to bring to the course is ... yourself! We even provide a notepad and a suprisingly nice pen for you to take notes with.

For online training you'll need two things:

  1. A good internet connection (otherwise you'll have a frustrating time); and
  2. A second screen (a requirement, not a nice-to-have!)

You can see full details of our online course requirements here.

When you book a place

If you book a place on one of our courses:

  • For classroom courses we will send out a joining email. That's it!
  • For online courses we will get in touch to organise a half-hour pre-course check to iron out any connection problems before the course (rather than during it).

Whatever type of course you book, we will also send you out a reminder a few days before the course is due to take place - not that (we hope) you'll have forgotten!

What you won't need

For classroom training, you won't need a computer - we (obviously) will provide that. However, you're welcome to use your own laptop if you prefer, providing that you have the correct software installed.

For online training you will need a computer, but you won't need to have any software installed.  This is because you'll use Windows Remote Desktop to connect to our computers, and these will have all of the necessary files and software installed.

The start of the course

For online courses you will be able to join up to half an hour before the course begins. This will give you time to:

  • familiarise yourself with the set-up;
  • meet your trainer; and
  • get to know the other delegates!

For classroom training it's always nice if people arrive a bit early too, to give people time to meet each other (and drink coffee).

You'll be given a full colour courseware manual, an exercise booklet to go with the course and a USB stick for taking course files away (we'll post all this to you for online courses).

After the course

After the course finishes you'll receive a digital certificate proving your attendance (we will gladly send a paper copy on request also).

We don't have any formal arrangement for answering questions after the course, but if you get stuck on something and email your trainer they should (and nearly always do!) respond as quickly as their training schedule allows.

Related Courses

You might like to consider these related courses:

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