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Extracting New entries from an Excel file

Deano478
12 - Quasar

Hi Community,

 

Recently I created an MS Form for my organisation to fill in and like every MS Form the results are sent to an Excel file.

 

What I Am trying to accomplish is when a new entry comes into the Responses Excel sheet I need to extract it and add it a new output so essentially everyday I need to extract all new entries if there is any

 

Here's an sample of three dummy entries I used as when testing my form:

 

IDStart timeCompletion timeEmailNameNew or ExistingCompany NameIs This a Group 
13/7/23 15:25:583/7/23 15:28:39JohnDoe@Gmail.comJohn DoeNew ClientABC LimitedNo
23/8/23 15:28:413/8/23 15:30:20JaneDoe@Gmail.comJane DoeNew ClientTest IncNo
33/8/23 15:30:223/8/23 15:31:24JoeBloggs@Gmail.comJoe BloggsExisting ClientJJJ LtdYes

 

For example today I would need to extract the last 2 records.

 

I know this might be a big ask but I appreciate any guidance or support that is offered for this matter.

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binuacs
20 - Arcturus

@Deano478you can filter out the new records with the below formula 

 

DateTimeParse(]Start Date],’%m/%d/%y’) = DateTimeToday()

Deano478
12 - Quasar

hey @binuacs I tried the formula but I ran into this error I'm not to sure about:

 

 

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Deano478
12 - Quasar

Never mind it worked it was silly mistake on my end

FrederikE
13 - Pulsar

Hey @Deano478,

You got an typo in your formula - '&m/%d/%y' - instead of '%m/%d/%y' 

this causes the conversion error.

Deano478
12 - Quasar

Hry again @binuacs  and @FrederikE I put the formula into a filter tool as a custom filter however its telling me that there is no new records even though I have 4 for today sorry about this. here is the SS:

 

 

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