Power Automate for desktop - Build 2201.5

This article describes the new features, improvements and fixes to existing functionality that are included in this build.

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Version 2.16.215.22020 updates

New features

• Users will now have the ability to group Excel instances under a single Excel process. This way, Excel instances will be able to reference multiple macros. The ability to launch isolated instances will also remain available.

Enhancements & improvements

• This release includes some performance fixes for certain user activities during flow authoring, like adding/deleting/editing/moving an action inside the Main subflow or navigating from one subflow to another. More performance improvements will be coming in the following release as well.
• Sovereign cloud users are now enabled to sign-in to Power Automate for desktop without an RPA with attended license (with a work or school account).
• The image picker menu in image recognition actions now presents the captured images as thumbnails, instead in the form of a list.

Repaired Functionality

The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:

• Console's Modified column now automatically updates when the user saves from the designer and not when the designer closes.
• Subflows now function independently, as far as their scrollbar is concerned. Scrolling down in one subflow will not affect the view in other subflows.
• When an Excel document is launched as read-only, trying to save it now results in an error.

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