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Learning Robotic Process Automation

By : Alok Mani Tripathi
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Learning Robotic Process Automation

By: Alok Mani Tripathi

Overview of this book

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) enables automating business processes using software robots. Software robots interpret, trigger responses, and communicate with other systems just like humans do. Robotic processes and intelligent automation tools can help businesses improve the effectiveness of services faster and at a lower cost than current methods. This book is the perfect start to your automation journey, with a special focus on one of the most popular RPA tools: UiPath. Learning Robotic Process Automation takes you on a journey from understanding the basics of RPA to advanced implementation techniques. You will become familiar with the UiPath interface and learn about its workflow. Once you are familiar with the environment, we will get hands-on with automating applications such as Excel, SAP, Windows and web applications, screen and web scraping, working with user events, and we'll cover exceptions and debugging. By the end of the book, you'll not only be able to build your first software robot, but you'll also wire it up to perform various automation tasks with the help of best practices for robot deployment.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Excel and Word plugins

The most important plugins are Microsoft office plugins. In this section, we will cover Excel and Word plugins.

In most projects, one of these two plugins is used.

Excel plugin

Excel is an application program developed by Microsoft. It is a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Excel is capable of creating and manipulating files that are saved with .xls or .xlsx extensions. General uses of Excel include (an individual cell) cell-based calculation. For example, with an Excel spreadsheet, you can create a table, use formulae to compute every row and column, make your own monthly expense list, and so on.

Unlike a word processor such as Microsoft Word, Excel documents consist of rows and columns. Each column...