Renaming worksheet, removing format, reading text file

[anmdf]

Hello!

I have a few questions on the flow that I'm building... The process is to read a table in Excel, convert to CSV, and send in an email which will be taken care of by another automation.

My flow right now is that I have created an Excel template, and proceeded to "add a row into a table" for each row in the source file table. Then create a file in Sharepoint with a .csv extension and then attach it to an email. Opening the file and it still had the formatting of the table. 

So I was just wondering, is it possible to...

1. rename the worksheet in the csv file using Flow?

2. remove all formatting of data?

Also, is it possible to read a text file with tab delimiters and then "paste" it into an Excel table for conversion to csv? 

Thank you! Any suggestions would help.

[v-litu-msft]

Hi @anmdf,

1. I have tested on my side, there is no worksheet name in the CSV file, do you mean rename the worksheet in the Excel file?
2. What' the original format of the data? On my side, there is String.
3. There is no way to read a text file, so you may be hard to get data from it and put it into Excel Table.

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[v-litu-msft]

Hi @anmdf,

Correct my previous reply: There is no relative action to read a text file, but you can use the Get file content to get the content of the text file.

Could you share your Csv file instance? So that we can better understand your requirement that renames the worksheet name.

By the way, there are a blog and some post that how to deal with the CSV file, you can have a reference with it:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Cookbook/read-csv-file-and-write-to-destination/m-p/258524

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[anmdf]

Hello @v-litu-msft,

Sorry for the late response. 

The process is that:

1. A tab-delimited .txt file is received via email (with about a hundred rows, no header)

2. There is a template Excel (.xlsx) file with two sheets (stored in SharePoint). The contents of the .txt file is copied to Sheet 1.

3. Sheet 2 gets the data required from the .txt file. The result is two rows (one header and one datarow)

4. Sheet 2 is then converted to a .csv file and sent via email.

I tried making it into a .csv file via Flow by doing the Create File (SharePoint) and just putting a .csv extension; but I guess that's not how I should do it?

Thank you!

[v-litu-msft]

Hi @anmdf,

Could you please share an example about the txt file? (Block the key information)

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[anmdf]

Here is the data:

These should be converted to csv, and will be filtered using the first column. Thank you!