Button in Excel that triggers a flow in Power Automate

Hi @Henzim 

It is possible to run Power Automate from within Excel, but there is an important distinction. Excel supports running flows through the Automate tab / Power Automate pane in Excel for the web and desktop.  

If you mean a button placed directly on the worksheet, Microsoft’s native button option is currently for Office Scripts, not for directly binding a worksheet button to a Power Automate cloud flow. Excel allows you to add a worksheet button that runs an associated Office Script. 

So in practice, there are two supported approaches: 

1. Simplest option: run the flow from Excel’s Automate tab / Power Automate pane.  
2. Custom workaround: add an Office Script button in the workbook, and have that script call a Power Automate flow indirectly (for example, via an HTTP-triggered endpoint). Office Scripts do support external API calls when run from the Excel application, but this comes with security/authentication considerations and may require the right Power Automate licensing depending on the setup.  

You may find further guidance here: 

• Use flows with Excel 
• Run Office Scripts in Excel from buttons 
• Run Office Scripts with Power Automate 
• External API call support in Office Scripts 
• Create a button to run an Office Script 
• Power Automate licensing FAQ 

Given that your question involves a combination of Microsoft Excel governance and Power Automate workflow design, the most suitable place to receive specialized guidance would be the Microsoft Power Platform forum. Experts in that community can help explore alternative governance strategies, provide insights into unsupported API behavior, and monitor whether channel‑level archiving becomes supported in future updates. 

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