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Automate desktop applications

Automate desktop applications

- [Instructor] Microsoft Power Automate Desktop can automate any application that we have installed on our computer. To do this, we can do it in two ways. We can create a process from scratch, a new process, or we can start from the examples. If we go to the Examples and we look under Desktop Automation, there are going to be some pre-configured processes from which we can start automating desktop applications and desktop functionalities, not just running different applications, but also performing different actions, like printing documents, clearing files, and so on. In this example, we are going to see how we can open an application and how we could potentially integrate and spy different elements inside of that application. The simplest way of starting is by creating a copy of this process. To do that, all we have to do is create a copy. This will create a copy and put a copy of this process inside of our flows. To…

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