xlwings
xlwings is a Python library that makes it easy to call Python from Excel and vice versa. It works with Excel on Windows and macOS as well as with Google Sheets and Excel on the web. (by xlwings)
Instrumenta
Free and open source consulting-style Powerpoint toolbar (by iappyx)
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xlwings | Instrumenta | |
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25 | 7 | |
2,834 | 203 | |
1.2% | - | |
8.5 | 0.0 | |
17 days ago | about 1 year ago | |
Python | VBA | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
xlwings
Posts with mentions or reviews of xlwings.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-22.
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Python in Excel: Combining the Power of Python and the Flexibility of Excel
Reading the headline, I initially thought that Microsoft bought the company behind XLWings [1], which also enables you to use Excel directly within Excel, even locally. Not affiliated in any kind to that company, just used it in the past.
- Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel
- Python for Excel: A Modern Environment for Automation and Data Analysis
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Running python from excel
xlWings https://www.xlwings.org/
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Creating slicers with xlwings
I'm trying to automate a report and I know xlwings does not support pivot tables and slicers, as it is essentially a pywin32 wrapper. You can directly reference the COM object using .api and constants
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VM for python automation projects
Also you can also use xlwings library to build an excel add-on to replace or even augment VBA.
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Help with Python automation at work to free up time as single Dad.
You want xlwings (my preferred) or openpyxl
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[Question] Can I automate this? Sending emails with a file that needs to be updated.
You could look at using Python from Excel using xlwings.
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Microsoft upgrades Office security by blocking VBA macros by default
Xlwings is superior anyway.
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Any ways to use excel to run a, say, python script?
xlwings - open source and free - https://www.xlwings.org/
Instrumenta
Posts with mentions or reviews of Instrumenta.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-01.
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Best tools or addons for slide decks
If you don't want to spend money and just need to modify standard items like text/shapes/tables, I like the feature set of Instrumenta (https://github.com/iappyx/Instrumenta)
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What software do you use to make presentations?
Two PowerPoint add ons I’ve used post PhD, where the balance of style vs substance is more tilted towards the former, are Poweruser (freemium) and Instrumenta (free, https://github.com/iappyx/Instrumenta). Helps with a lot of the formatting tweaking and PowerUser includes a bunch of nice templates as well as letting you make your own templates from existing slides
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It's 2022...
Get Instrumenta if your firm doesn't have a decent PPT plugin.
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Instrumenta Power Point Add In
Unfortunately like Steve pointed out the add has been flagged by MS Defender in the past (false positive). I've reported these all to Microsoft (see: here and here).
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What software/plugins do you use that you couldn't live without?
Instrumenta, the poor man's PPT plugin when your firm doesn't have one. Found it linked on this sub before and quite pleased with it.
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Power Point Add Ins
The best free add-on for PowerPoint that I have come across is called Instrumenta, which is a free and open source consulting toolbar: https://github.com/iappyx/Instrumenta
- Where can I find good and free ppt macros?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing xlwings and Instrumenta you can also consider the following projects:
openpyxl
PPspliT - A PowerPoint add-in that splits slides according to slideshow-time animation effects
XlsxWriter - A Python module for creating Excel XLSX files.
rst2pdf - Use a text editor. Make a PDF.
pyexcel - Single API for reading, manipulating and writing data in csv, ods, xls, xlsx and xlsm files
IguanaTexMac - IguanaTex for mac
xlwt
PowerToys - Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
python-docx - Create and modify Word documents with Python
marp - The entrance repository of Markdown presentation ecosystem
python-pptx - Create Open XML PowerPoint documents in Python
manim-slides - Tool for live presentations using manim