What is Microsoft Power Automate?

Power Automate is a cloud service that lets you manage the apps, web services, and resources on your desktop and mobile devices. Meanwhile, Microsoft Windows recorder is an extension for the web browser that lets you easily record, test, and replay scenarios, and quickly build and deploy automation.

How do I record actions on a web browser?

Actions on your web browser need to be recorded to a program that's available for your web browser. If you're using Chrome, you'll need to download the Chrome extension.

What's in the Microsoft Windows recorder extension?

The Microsoft Windows recorder extension connects to the Microsoft Power Automate program on your device and captures the your desktop screen.

How do I create desktop flows?

You can create flows with a step, event, or activity. Choose which step to start the flow at.

Record the desired scenario by clicking the step icon. The flow can be paused and resumed later from the same point. Then, review your recorded flow and test it by clicking the test icon. Furthermore, you may click to delete a step or to continue to the next step.

What can I do with recorded desktop flows?

Recorded desktop flows can be saved to Power Automate and tested.