Hi finance geeks! 📉

If you are still doing manual copy-pasting or relying heavily on fragile VBA macros, it might be time to switch to Python.

Here is my toolkit for automating Excel workflows in 2025:

1. Pandas 🐼

The absolute king of data manipulation.

• Best for: Cleaning data, merging multiple CSVs, and pivot tables.
• Trick: Use pd.read_excel() to load messy sheets and clean them in one line of code.

2. OpenPyXL / XlsxWriter

• Best for: Formatting. If you need to generate a report that looks nice (colors, borders, charts) to send to your boss.
• Trick: XlsxWriter is faster for large files.

3. Xlwings 🚀

• Best for: Controlling Excel app directly. You can write Python functions and call them inside Excel like a macro.

4. ParserData API (The Input Fix)

• Best for: Getting data INTO Excel from PDFs (Invoices, Bank Statements).
• Why: Pandas fails on PDFs. ParserData extracts tables from scanned PDFs and returns clean JSON/Excel ready for analysis.

Question: Are you team VBA or team Python for daily tasks? Let’s discuss below! 👇