{"id":11014,"date":"2024-01-30T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/january-2024-update-of-power-automate-for-desktop\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:42:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:42:47","slug":"january-2024-update-of-power-automate-for-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/january-2024-update-of-power-automate-for-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2024 update of Power Automate for desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to announce that the January 2024 update of Power Automate for desktop (version 2.40) has been released! You can download the latest release <a href=\"https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?linkid=2102613\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Key features<\/h2>\n<p>New features and updates have been added, as described below.<\/p>\n<h3>Suggested actions are now available in preview<\/h3>\n<p>In addition to adding actions from the actions panel, you can now also use the suggested actions panel (in preview), which leverages AI to generate a list of actions that you could use as the next steps in your flow. This functionality is only available in US environments for work or school account users.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_11020\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11020\" style=\"width: 521px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Suggested actions in Power Automate for desktop\" class=\"wp-image-11020 size-full\" height=\"776\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Suggested-actions-v2.png\" width=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Suggested-actions-v2.webp 521w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Suggested-actions-v2-201x300.webp 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11020\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Power Automate leverages AI to suggest actions as potential next steps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Blank values have now been introduced<\/h3>\n<p>Blank values are now supported in Power Automate for desktop, in addition to empty text string values that were already available.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, input variables can now be marked as optional, using the new toggle parameter called \u2018Mark as optional\u2019 that allows makers to assign them with a blank value.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11015\" style=\"width: 619px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Blank values and optional inputs have been introduced\" class=\"wp-image-11015 size-full\" height=\"535\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Blank-values-and-optional-inputs.png\" width=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Blank-values-and-optional-inputs.webp 619w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Blank-values-and-optional-inputs-300x259.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blank values and optional input variables are now supported<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Power Automate for desktop now supports single sign-on<\/h3>\n<p>Power Automate for desktop now supports single sign-on, so that users can sign in faster with the account they used to sign in to their Windows session.<\/p>\n<h2>New actions<\/h2>\n<p>Multiple new actions under several groups are now ready to use out of the box.<\/p>\n<h3>New actions for Word have now been introduced<\/h3>\n<p>The following dedicated actions for <strong>Word <\/strong>are now available under the new respective group of actions, allowing you to perform certain activities out of the box:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Launch Word<\/li>\n<li>Attach to running Word<\/li>\n<li>Save Word<\/li>\n<li>Close Word<\/li>\n<li>Read from Word document<\/li>\n<li>Write to Word document<\/li>\n<li>Insert image in Word document<\/li>\n<li>Find and replace words in Word document<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11018\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11018\" style=\"width: 347px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Word actions are available out of the box\" class=\"wp-image-11018 size-full\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Word-actions.png\" width=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Word-actions.webp 347w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Word-actions-300x195.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New dedicated actions for Word now allow you to edit Word documents easily<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>A new work queue action has now been added<\/h3>\n<p>The action <strong>Update work queue item processing notes<\/strong> has now been introduced under the \u2018Work queues\u2019 group of actions, to enable the respective functionality in desktop flows.<\/p>\n<h3>HTML content can now be created via the respective new action<\/h3>\n<p>A new action called <strong>Create HTML content<\/strong> is now available under the \u2018Text\u2019 group of actions, enabling the creation of HTML content via the embedded editor.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11016\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11016\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"HTML embedded editor\" class=\"wp-image-11016 size-full\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/html-action-editor.png\" 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