Power Automate Tutorial for Beginners: Send Emails Automatically in SharePoint

Learn how to create your first Power Automate flow in Microsoft 365—no coding required. In this beginner-friendly tutorial, Gerry Brimacombe walks you through the exact steps to automatically send emails from a SharePoint list when a project status changes.

🚀 You’ll discover:

How to use the new Power Automate designer

What triggers are and how they start flows

How to conditionally send an email using dynamic SharePoint fields

The importance of choosing the right data fields (yes, including the tricky “status.value” lesson!)

Bonus tips to troubleshoot, test, and zoom around your flows like a pro

If you’re new to Microsoft Power Automate and want to simplify your daily workflow, this video will get you started fast.

📍In this example:
We build a simple flow that sends an automatic email to a project manager when the status of a project list item changes to “Started.”

🛠 Tools shown:

Power Automate (basic license)

SharePoint Online

Microsoft 365 apps

🎓 Perfect for:

Project managers

IT admins

SharePoint users

Microsoft 365 power users

Anyone who wants to save time by automating repetitive tasks

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