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ASAnkur Soniinjsontoexcel.hashnode.dev·Jun 15 · 3 min readYour JSON-to-Excel Converter Is Probably Corrupting Your Data. Here's the 30-Second TestLast week a JSON-to-Excel tool quietly changed my data and I almost shipped it to a client. I pasted an API response into the top "JSON to Excel" tool on Google, downloaded the file, and opened it — a00
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AVAloysius Vidhun Moninaloysius05.hashnode.dev·May 25 · 7 min readHow to Batch Convert Office Files to Google Docs & Sheets (Without Getting Timed Out)If you've ever migrated an organization from Microsoft Office to Google Workspace, you know the headache of dealing with hundreds of legacy .docx, .doc, .xlsx, and .xls files. Sure, Google Drive lets 00
SSSoumyadeep Sarkarinsoumyadeepbuilds.hashnode.dev·Apr 29 · 13 min readAutomating a Twice-Daily Reporting Workflow with PowerShell, Excel VBA, Outlook, and Microsoft Teams Daily reporting sounds simple until the same set of steps has to be repeated again and again with almost no room for mistakes. In one of my recent automation projects, the reporting process had to be 00