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- Tutorial: Creating a Pivot Table
- Tutorial: Iterating Through Rows in a Table
- Tutorial: Comparing Excel Files and Emailing Reconciliation Errors
- Tutorial: Extracting Data From Automated Emails and Moving It to a Desktop Application
- Tutorial: Filtering Data in Excel
- Tutorial: Formatting Cells
- Tutorial: Adding Information About the Files in a Folder to an Excel File
- Tutorial: Adding Your Own Formulas to the Project Notebook
- Tutorial: Iterating Through Outlook Mails and Saving Attachments
- Tutorial: Saving, Renaming, and Moving Attachments
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Tutorial: Saving, Renaming, and Moving Attachments
In this tutorial, we will create an automation that saves the attachments to all the emails in an Outlook Search Folder to your computer, then moves the files to another folder on your computer and renames them by adding today's date to the file name. To rename the files, we will use a formula in the default Project Notebook available in StudioX.
We will create a project and start by adding a Use Desktop Outlook App activity to indicate the Outlook account to use. Inside this activity, we will add a For Each Email activity and then the common scenario Iterate through mail attachments to indicate that we want to save the attachments for each email and then process each file after it is saved. Iterating through each file in the folder where the attachments are saved, we will then add a Write Cell activity to copy the file name and edit the name in the Project Notebook, and a Move File activity to move the file with the updated name to another folder.