I'd rather live under a bridge than work with AI-infused Excel.
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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An hour to six days is bad. There must be some kind of data ingestion and pipeline involved. Reading a database and generating a formatted xlsx file can be a few seconds to minutes.
An OpenXML library could modify and write to a new file without Excel. Microsoft's version is usually for C#, there are similar libraries in other programming languages if your computer is locked down. If Excel gives a corrupted error when opening, the XML data can be viewed by renaming the xlsx extension to zip.
Merging Cells: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/documentformat.openxml.spreadsheet.mergecells?view=openxml-3.0.1
Cell style and background color: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44839512/how-to-work-with-style-index-in-open-xml
If missing the point was an art, you’d be Michelangelo.
I'm more of a van Gogh, misunderstood until after his time.
I don't understand. Was Michelangelo known for frequently missing the point?
I recommend looking at power query as a tool to replace VBA. It can do some pretty advanced things though it can also be a pain sometimes.
Have you looked at import-excel (powershell)? I’m guess if you’re at the VBA level it’s probably too primitive, but thinking of ideas.