Microsoft 365 (Excel & VBA)

A 3–4 day compile job, down to 15 minutes

A US team spent three to four days compiling a recurring process by hand. A VBA automation now does it in about fifteen minutes.

Client: US business (anonymised)Published: April 2025
ExcelPower QueryVBA
3–4 days
the old manual process
15 mins
the same job now

The problem

Monthly data arriving from multiple sources across different customers, all of it needing to be compiled into reports and sent out, a job that was taking the team three to four days of manual work every time it came round.

What I built

Pure Excel. Power Query tidies the incoming data first; VBA then automates normalising it, builds each customer’s report, and outputs the PDFs with the email data ready to send. One run does the lot.

The result

The same job now takes about fifteen minutes. In the client’s own words:

Chris was awesome. The product is awesome and I will definitely use him again for future projects. It took a process that was taking us 3 - 4 days to compile down to 15 minutes.

TaggedExcelPower QueryVBAvba automationreport compilation

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