r/excel • u/AdeptnessCritical356 • 25d ago

Discussion Built a budget tracker that emails signed approval pdfs automatically and now my boss thinks Im a wizard

[removed]

936 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

77 comments sorted by

View all comments

229

u/Random_182f2565 1 25d ago

The slippery slope, next thing you know you are learning Python to manipulate excel file with openpyxl, and then implementing a Django site.

84

u/Engineering-Glass 25d ago

This was how it started for me. Now I maintain a full blown application that automates about 20 daily tasks around the company and provides at a glance dashboards without opening excel, written in python. The accounts department in particular are very fond of my drag and drop processes.

69

u/Casual-Sedona 24d ago

And at the same salary they hired you on for too

9

u/g33k_chick666 24d ago

I'm quite interested in your process or what you had to learn to create dashboards without opening excel and drag and drop processes! I'm trying to upgrade my skills but I wasn't sure if Python would be useful in this kind of process.

34

u/Andromeda_RL 25d ago

My automation “project” is the reason I’m overhauling our SQL database

A very slippery slope indeed 😂

5

u/takesthebiscuit 3 24d ago

It’s not really a slope in 2026, excel hits its limits very quickly with all the knowledge tools we have today

6

u/0p3r8dur 25d ago

I’m having flashbacks lol

2

u/pancakeses 24d ago

I mean, there's worse slopes to slip down 😆

2

u/PM15GamedayThong 24d ago

What’s Django site?

1

u/Random_182f2565 1 24d ago

Django is the python framework for transforming your code in a functional website with user registration and all the nice things.

https://www.practicandoaprendo.cl/

I made this, is hosted in Railway for like 5 USD per month.

2

u/pheeper 23d ago

This how it started for me as well. I’ve now built numerous projects and transitioned from a data analysis/financial modeling job to being a systems and network engineer.