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misce
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Jan 26, 2021
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Conditional Formatting isn't showing until the cell is interacted with

I am using Power Automate (Microsoft Flow) to create an Excel spreadsheet and email it to the user - flow is working all fine. The template which is updated in the flow has icon conditional format...
  • SergeiBaklan's avatar
    Jan 26, 2021

    misce 

    Looks like on updating the sheet Flow returns text instead of date, if user re-enter it is converted to date (actually number) and rule works.

     

    Microsoft changed about a week ago how date from Excel sheet is recognized by Flow (text in ISO format instead of date). Perhaps that's related change. However, few days ago reverted change back and new version shall be introduced soon. That's somewhere on support page.

     

    That's only the guess, I don't know for sure.