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Office scripts are difficult yes
There are Python tools for interacting with xlsx which are pretty nice, but I'm not going to use that to edit a spreadsheet. Kind of defeats the purpose.
Well I can give an example of why a tool like that is useful.
Export data for a client form internal system but that export looks like shit.
I could spend an hour cleaning it up (multiplied by the number of other workers needing to do similar things) or I could write an office script and create essentially an import template that formats it nicely.
I'm choosing the latter every time.
Sounds pretty reasonable actually. We could probably use something like that for some of the reports we make. I'll look in to it.