Insert Table to Word File

Description

You can insert a table to a Word DOCX file at a certain position indicated by a placeholder.

Input Arguments

Input Argument	Type	Description	Required?	Advanced Option?	Default
`Existing File Content`	Dynamic Content	The Word document which shall be used to insert table into it. Must be a file – Base64 string is not supported.	✔️	❌	-
`Placeholder name`	String	The string which indicates the placeholder. Hence, the position where the text is inserted at in the **Word document.	❌	❌	-
`Placeholder table`	JSON or CSV	The table which shall be added to a Word document.	❌	❌	-
`Table Style`	`Choice Field`	Table style, as it is named in the original word document.	❌	✔️	Grig Table 1 Light
`Show Headers?`	`Boolean`	Indicates whether the first row of the table should be used as column headers.	❌	✔️	Yes
`Placeholder Prefix`	String	Opening placeholder delimiter e.g. `{{InsertHere}}`.	❌	✔️	`'{{'`
`Placeholder Suffix`	String	Closing placeholder delimiter e.g. `{{InsertHere}}`.	❌	✔️	`'}}'`

Output

Response	Type	Description
`File response`	File	The updated Word file (docx) with the inserted table.
`File response as string`	String	The updated Word file as a base64-encoded string. Useful for storing in variables, Dataverse, or passing to other actions.
`MIME type`	String	The MIME type of the file, typically application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document.
`Extension`	String	The file extension, e.g., docx.

Power Automate Examples

Insert Table to Word File

We use Get file content to retrieve an existing Word document. In same existing Word document we included a text about a giraffe and the placeholder code: "##table##". At the position of the placeholder code, the placeholder table will be inserted. Thereafter, the Word is being saved.

Simple JSON with four pets

              [
              {
                  "Pet": "Dog",
                  "Identifier": "1000",
                  "First name": "Eats",
                  "Last name": "A Lot"
              },
              {
                  "Pet": "Cat",
                  "Identifier": "1001",
                  "First name": "Likes",
                  "Last name": "To Scratch"
              },
              {
                  "Pet": "Cat",
                  "Identifier": "1002",
                  "First name": "Furry",
                  "Last name": "Kitty"
              },
              {
                  "Pet": "Duck",
                  "Identifier": "1003",
                  "First name": "Dagobert",
                  "Last name": "Swimmy"
              }
              ]

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