Delete rows of Excel with specific conditions.(Power Automate Desktop)

03/02/202303/18/2023

Japanese version.

I will show you in the sample to delete a row if a particular column is blank.
The following worksheet has column A in rows 3 and 5 as blank and we want to delete this row.

Overall view of Flow

Robin(for copy and paste)

It can be copied and pasted into Power Automate Desktop.

Excel.LaunchExcel.LaunchAndOpenUnderExistingProcess Path: $'''C:\\Test\\Test.xlsx''' Visible: False ReadOnly: False Instance=> ExcelInstance
Excel.SetActiveWorksheet.ActivateWorksheetByName Instance: ExcelInstance Name: $'''Sheet1'''
Excel.GetFirstFreeColumnRow Instance: ExcelInstance FirstFreeColumn=> FirstFreeColumn FirstFreeRow=> FirstFreeRow
LOOP LoopIndex FROM 1 TO FirstFreeRow STEP 1
    Excel.ReadFromExcel.ReadCell Instance: ExcelInstance StartColumn: 1 StartRow: LoopIndex ReadAsText: False CellValue=> ExcelData
    IF ExcelData = $'''%''%''' THEN
        Excel.DeleteRow Instance: ExcelInstance Index: LoopIndex
    END
END
Excel.CloseExcel.CloseAndSave Instance: ExcelInstance

Flow creation steps

Set up a Launch Excel Action.

Parameter	Value
Launch Excel	and open the following document
Document path	Path of the target Excel book.
Make instance visible	OFF
Open as ReadOnly	OFF

Set up a Set active Excel Worksheet Action.

Parameter	Value
Active worksheet with	Name
Worksheet name	The name of the target sheet.

Set up a Get first free column/row from Excel worksheet Action.

Set up a Loop.

Parameter	Value
Start from	1
End to	%FirstFreeRow%
Increment by	1

Set up a Read from Excel worksheet Action in Loop.

Parameter	Value
Retrieve	The value of a single cell
Start column	1
Start row	%LoopIndex%

Set up a If in Loop.

Parameter	Value
First operand	%ExcelData%
Operator	Equal to (=)
Second operand	%''%

Set up a Delete Row from Excel Worksheet Action in If.

Parameter	Value
Delete row	%LoopIndex%

Finally, set up Close Excel Action and save the file.

If column A is blank when this Flow is executed, the row is deleted.

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