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As I said in Automating Microsoft Excel, I thought I might write some more about automating Excel. Recall I wrote about it because finding snippets of code to do what you want is difficult. So if I can add to that meagre stockpile on the web, I’m going to. That other post was about automatingContinue reading “Automating Microsoft Excel Some More”

(This post is about automating Excel on Mac OS. If you’re not a Mac user this probably won’t interest you.) My Process From the creation of a CSV file onwards, automation is key: Creating a CSV file is one of two things: A program on z/OS. A piece of javascript code I have that turnsContinue reading “Automating Microsoft Excel”

mdpre Markdown Preprocessor A few days ago I released md2pptx, a Markdown to Powerpoint converter on GitHub as an open source project. You can find it here. Now I’m releasing a companion program – mdpre. This is a preprocessor for Markdown. You can find it here. I would’ve released them together and why I didn’tContinue reading “mdpre Markdown Preprocessor”

It’s been a long time since I started writing md2pptx. But finally I’ve open sourced it. A Problem Statement Of Sorts I wrote md2pptx because I got tired of four things: The process of embedding graphics in PowerPoint. The fact that pasting a picture into PowerPoint made the resulting presentation file huge. The location ofContinue reading “md2pptx Markdown To PowerPoint Converter”