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Convert XLS to XLSX

Submitted by on ‎09-05-2017 12:20 AM

It would be helpful to automatically convert old Excel formats to new ones using MS Flow, when they arrive by mail.

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39 Comments (39 New)
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RFisch18
Advocate I
Advocate I
‎08-12-2020 10:29 AM

Hello?!?

RFisch18
Advocate I
Advocate I
‎08-16-2020 07:41 PM

Almost 3 years, still no response???

Reigningfear
Advocate IV
Advocate IV
‎09-21-2020 08:30 PM

This would certainly be a valuable tool as some of us still work with legacy file formats. I am currently running into that issue now where I am working with a .xls file.

RobFischer
Advocate I
Advocate I
‎11-23-2020 07:36 PM

any updates?

r96359
Helper IV
Helper IV
‎01-11-2021 10:12 AM

Seems Microsoft has finally resolved this by creating Power Automate Desktop.

This will compete head to head with the functionality of UiPath.

 

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Automate-Community-Blog/Convert-XLS-files-to-XLSX-files-us... 

RobFischer
Advocate I
Advocate I
‎08-02-2021 12:27 PM

Still nothing... Do we have to wait 4 years for a response?

j1mmyfever
Microsoft
Microsoft
‎12-30-2021 12:17 PM

Excel Online (Business) doesn't appear to support ingesting a XLS from SharePoint to do any data manipulation with the Flow I'm working on either. Seems like a big feature gap that would enable a lot of legacy platform integrations. 

Desktop Flow doesn't feel good for an enterprise solution, which is how I would probably try and solve this right now.

StNi
Regular Visitor
‎05-31-2022 10:07 AM

Please, this would be really helpful and can't be too complicated for the guys that invented both file formats!!

Veiga
New Member
2 weeks ago

It gets to be frustrating, a request so old that it still hasn't been resolved.
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