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Wise Owl's Power Automate and PA Desktop Training Courses

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Benefits of our Power Automate and PAD training

Not sure if we deserve all the reviews you can see on this site? Here are some of the things we do (very) differently to earn them.

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Friendly and professional training ... guaranteeed▼

How can any training company guarantee the quality of their courses? Here's how:

We limit our courses to no more than 6 people per class.
Unlike almost every other computer training company, we never subcontract or use freelancers - here's why this matters.

The best courseware in the industry? See for yourself▼

Our course manuals and exercises are by some way the best in the computer training industry. Fortunately you don't have to take our word for this - you can see for yourself:

See our Introduction to Power Automate courseware
See our Fast track Power Automate courseware
See our Power Automate Desktop courseware
See our Power Automate Desktop exercises
See our Power Automate exercises

Genuine integrity - and good manners▼

Our values are simple - we treat people as we would like to be treated ourselves. So:

We will - almost never - cancel courses. To see what "almost never" means see our no cancel guarantee.
There's nothing worse than being pestered, so we don't pester people. Ever.
It's dangerous to be sanctimionius, but we can see no possible benefit that tobacco and gambling companies bring to the world (and quite a lot of harm), so we choose not to work for them. Sorry.

You can see more on our corporate values here.

Innovative online training platform▼

We've put a lot of thought into making our online courses as useful and interactive as possbile:

Delegates use Remote Desktop to connect to our machines, so our trainers can see everyone's screens at all time.
We arrange (without charge) a half-hour pre-course check for each online delegate before courses, to ensure that they everyone will be able to join the course seamlessly when it begins.
As well as providing a PDF of the manual and exercises for each online course delegate we will (again without charge) also post this out to each person a few days before if required.

Choose a specific course, or stay on this page to see all of our Power Automate and PAD training.

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Our current Power Automate and Power Automate Desktop scheduled courses

Can't see the dates/course type that you want? Create your own onsite course (and tailor the content too!).

Course	Dates	Venue/type	Duration	Price	Times
We don't have any scheduled courses for this combination of criteria: please try different options.
Fast track Power Automate	Wed/Fri 26-28 March 2025 26-28 Mar	Online	3 days	£1,350.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Power Automate Desktop	Thu/Fri 27-28 March 2025 27-28 Mar	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to Power Automate	Mon/Tue 31st Mar/1st April 2025 31 Mar-01 Apr	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to Power Automate	Thu/Fri 01-02 May 2025 01-02 May	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Power Automate Desktop	Thu/Fri 01-02 May 2025 01-02 May	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Fast track Power Automate	Wed/Fri 21-23 May 2025 21-23 May	Online	3 days	£1,350.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to Power Automate	Thu/Fri 29-30 May 2025 29-30 May	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Power Automate Desktop	Thu/Fri 29-30 May 2025 29-30 May	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to Power Automate	Thu/Fri 26-27 June 2025 26-27 Jun	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Power Automate Desktop	Thu/Fri 26-27 June 2025 26-27 Jun	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Fast track Power Automate	Tue/Thu 29-31 July 2025 29-31 Jul	Online	3 days	£1,350.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to Power Automate	Wed/Thu 30-31 July 2025 30-31 Jul	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Power Automate Desktop	Thu/Fri 31st Jul/1st August 2025 31 Jul-01 Aug	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to Power Automate	Thu/Fri 28-29 August 2025 28-29 Aug	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Power Automate Desktop	Thu/Fri 28-29 August 2025 28-29 Aug	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Fast track Power Automate	Tue/Thu 23-25 September 2025 23-25 Sep	Online	3 days	£1,350.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to Power Automate	Mon/Tue 29-30 September 2025 29-30 Sep	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Power Automate Desktop	Mon/Tue 29-30 September 2025 29-30 Sep	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Power Automate Desktop	Mon/Tue 27-28 October 2025 27-28 Oct	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to Power Automate	Thu/Fri 30-31 October 2025 30-31 Oct	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Fast track Power Automate	Wed/Fri 26-28 November 2025 26-28 Nov	Online	3 days	£1,350.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to Power Automate	Thu/Fri 27-28 November 2025 27-28 Nov	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Power Automate Desktop	Thu/Fri 27-28 November 2025 27-28 Nov	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book

If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.

Our Power Automate and Power Automate Desktop classroom training venues

What other people have said about our Power Automate and PAD training

Here are some comments we've received about our Power Automate and PAD + training. You can see all of our 528 reviews here. We would like to sincerely thank the clients whose names are shown below for kindly agreeing to let us share their feedback.

"Excellent training as always."

Faye Chard

Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust

"We all thought that the course was excellent, well structured and presented at a good pace. Personally I liked that we were on the keyboard so much following the trainer’s demos rather than just sitting there listening, it made it a really interactive course and very valuable. I’d happily recommend the course to others and have forwarded your details on to the consultancy we are working with, on our PAD implementation, so they can pass your details to other clients."

Paul Brown

Knight Frank

"The trainer was informative and happy to deviate into case studies to suit our environment, if needed. Enjoyed the course."

Stewart Griffiths

Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust

"Altogether a very positive experience, professional and fun!"

Dane Horgan

Sofa Brands International Ltd

"Being able to discuss our requirements with a Wise Owl employee was beneficial to check that the selected course was appropriate for our applications. Completing tasks using a remote desktop was very engaging and allowed me to gain a better understanding of the software and uses."

Joshua Byrne

Sellafield Ltd

"Excellent as always :)"

Jon Nagl

Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA)

About our Power Automate and PAD training

If you're not sure whether you should be using Power Automate, Power Automate Desktop, both or neither, here's a quick comparison!

You can see a longer comparison in this blog, which tries to show in more details the differences between these two products which have such deceptively similar names!

Power Automate Desktop

The purpose of Power Automate Desktop is to create flows like this one:

As it happens, this flow would open Excel, read in some data from a workbook and then close Excel down again.

Power Automate Desktop also allows you to read from (or write to) parts of web browsers or other applications:

You can select any part of a web page or application, and either write text in to it or read from it.

You can use loops, conditions and variables, although there's no language to learn:

This program is looping over a range of Excel cells, doing something for each (and using variables to hold the intermediate values).

Here are most of the commands that you can use in Power Automate:

The commands that you select from.

However, each of these commands contains a host of subcommands. Here as one example is what you get if you choose Mouse and keyboard:

The mouse and keyboard events that you can automate.

The best way to think of Power Automate Desktop is like this: it does for the whole of Windows what VBA macros do for Excel.

Power Automate

Whereas Power Automate Desktop is designed to automate things that you do on your computer, Power Automate allows you to create cloud flows. Typical applications that you might want to automate could include:

Applications	Notes
File storage	Cloud flows can move, copy, rename and delete files and folders, providing that you give them access to the relevant storage sites. Typically you might use Power Automate to save data in SharePoint, OneDrive, DropBox, Google Drive or any other cloud storage medium.
Email servers	If you use a cloud-based app like GMail or Outlook to manage your messages, you can link to it to download emails, save attachments and create rules for processing incoming emails (to give just a few ideas).
Social media	Provided that you have the security rights to connect to a social media platform, you can interrogate it. A typical use of this might be to monitor Twitter for a particular hashtag's use.
Collaboration	Obvious collaborative software to play around with in flows would be Teams (so you could automatically add approved holidays to your organisation's Teams calendar, for example).

The best way to see what you might use a Power Automate flow for is to have a look at some of the template flows provided:

A (very) small sample of templates for flows that you can create in Power Automate.

Another good way to understand what you might do within a Power Automate flow is to have a look at some of the connectors available:

Some of the most popular things you might connect to are OneDrive, Excel 365 and SharePoint.

Crucial to Power Automate is the concept of triggering flows with actions:

Just a few ideas for things you could do to trigger a flow.

Any flow consists of a range of possible actions, and this is where Power Automate becomes more like its sister program Power Automate Desktop:

Some of the actions that you can do for Excel Online, for example.

What the above shows is that you would typically learn Power Automate Desktop to automate things that you do from your desktop computer and Power Automate to automate things that you do in the cloud, although there is some overlap between the functionality of the two products.

FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions

Click on any heading below to learn more.

How can I contact you with any questions?▼

You can reach us in one of the following ways:

Contact method	Details
Phone	Call us on (0161) 883 3606 and (within normal UK office hours) a friendly and helpful human will answer the phone!
Email	Send an email to our inbox and we'll aim to answer it within a couple of working hours.
Web	Fill in an enquiry form letting us know what you want to achieve, and we'll do our best to help!

Do you have any Power Automate and PAD videos?▼

We've got the following videos on our site to help you to learn Power Automate and PAD:

Category	Description	Videos
Power Automate	A series of video tutorials showing how to create flows using Power Automate	17

Do you ever blog about Power Automate and PAD?▼

We have the following blogs on Power Automate to help you:

Blog topic
Power Automate Desktop blogs
Blogs on Power Automate

Do you have any other Power Automate and PAD learning resources?▼

In addition to our classroom and online Power Automate and PAD training courses, we also have the following learning resources:

Resource	Notes
Tips and tricks	Useful tips and tricks to make Power Automate and PAD easier

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