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Software ==>	Power Automate Desktop (18 exercises)
Topic ==>	Files and folders (2 exercises)
Level ==>	Average difficulty
Subject ==>	Power Automate and PAD training

Create a flow to test if a file exists, and open it if it does

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Before you can do this exercise, you'll need to download and unzip this file .

You want to write a flow to open a workbook if it exists:

For example, the workbook Knife.xlsx exists in the above folder, so we can open it.

However, if a workbook doesn't exist your flow should display a suitable message:

If you try to open the workbook called Spoon.xlsx in the above folder you should see a message like this.

To get this to work create a new flow called Is there a spoon with the following actions:

Action	Notes
Set variable	Create a variable called FileName and set its value to the name of the file you want to open (eg knife or spoon).
Set variable	Create another variable called FilePath to hold the full path to this file, including the file name and .xlsx file extension (using a variable to store this will make the flow easier to read, and also let you reference this file path again easily).
If file exists	Check if a file exists with this file path. If it does, your flow should launch Excel, opening the file; otherwise your flow should use an Else action to display a message saying that the file was not found.

Test that your flow works with a valid and invalid file name, then save it and close it down.

You can unzip this file to see the answers to this exercise, although please remember this is for your personal use only. Our Power Automate exercises answers are provided as text files - you can see how to assemble these back into PAD flows here.

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