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Automate Email Attachment Processing with Power Query

Author: CA Subachandran M

Tools Used


- Excel / Power BI - Power Query

- Data Geniee


Use Case Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhZT-DRFrbE


What we receive in email; why its important


  1. All ERP reports right from Tally to SAP to CRM daily emails received For Example- GRIR data for month.
  2. Payment Advice from bank in PDF.
  3. For Audit client data from Tally or ERP directly which helps on ensuring data integrity; one time work and automated for life.
  4. Customer or Vendor or consultant team who send standard reports; BRC report.


Process to Follow Use Case


Access Mailbox - Securely connect Power Query to your Outlook account.


Fetch Emails - Extract email data, including attachments, using Power Query.


Filter Attachments - Identify and isolate the relevant email attachments.


Open Power Query Excel


Connect to Outlook


Paste the following in to formula bar = Exchange.Contents(“your email id xxxx@xxx.xxx")



Connect to Outlook


Click sign using Microsoft account, Generally your email is already signed in your system or in MSOffice.