Guide
Power Automate for beginners
Power Automate lets you connect the Microsoft 365 apps you already use so routine jobs happen on their own: saving attachments, sending reminders, collecting approvals. You don't need to code, but you do need to think clearly about the steps.
Is your task worth automating?
Good candidates happen often, follow the same steps each time, and start from something a computer can see: an email arriving, a form being submitted, a file being added. If a task needs judgement at every step, it is a job for a person, possibly helped by AI, rather than a flow.
How a flow is built
Every flow has a trigger (what starts it) and actions (what it does). Your first flow in the course saves email attachments to a OneDrive folder, which teaches both. From there you add conditions, approvals, and a little logic, and learn to read the run history when something fails.
Where AI fits
Copilot in Power Automate can draft a flow from a description, which is a useful start. Treat it like any AI draft: check every step before you switch it on.