{"id":109187,"date":"2018-01-09T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/december-blog-highlights\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T08:10:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:10:19","slug":"december-blog-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/december-blog-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Blog Highlights: December 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you visited\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/powerusers.microsoft.com\/t5\/PowerApps-Community-Blog\/bg-p\/PowerAppsBlog\">the Power Apps Community blog<\/a>\u00a0lately? 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Check out these great posts from December:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"powerapps:%20Get%20and%20save%20multiple%20selection%20values%20to%20Excel\">PowerApps: Get and save multiple selection values to Excel<\/a>\u00a0by Daniel Christian<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This blog shows how PowerApps can be used to lookup values from an Excel spreadsheet stored on OneDrive, make multiple selections and then save it back to the Excel.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/powerusers.microsoft.com\/t5\/PowerApps-Community-Blog\/PowerApps-One-Stop-Shop-for-Social-Media-Communication\/ba-p\/76416\">PowerApps &#8211; One Stop-Shop for Social Media Communication<\/a>\u00a0by Daniel Christian<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This blog walks you through how you can use the two attached templates to build your own mobile PowerApp as a central place to post comments to Facebook, Slack, Twitter and Yammer. The three attachments includes a MSAPP file for the PowerApp, zipped file for Flow and STP file for SharePoint. 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