Automating Business Reports (Excel PowerPoint PDFs)

Automating Business Reports (Excel PowerPoint PDFs)#

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openpyxl + python-pptx + reportlab = $120K/month automation Weekly Excel/PPT/PDF = 5 minutes → Replace analysts

Fortune 500 = 100% automated reporting

🎯 Automation = Analyst Replacement Machine#

Report

Manual

Automated

Hours Saved

Business Win

Excel

15 hours

2 minutes

14h/week

Data teams free

PowerPoint

20 hours

3 minutes

19h/week

Executive ready

PDF

5 hours

1 minute

4h/week

Professional

**ALL 3

40 hours

6 minutes

39h/week

$120K/month

🚀 Step 1: Excel Automation = Data Team Killer (Run this!)#

🔥 Step 2: PowerPoint Automation = C-Suite Ready#

⚡ Step 3: PDF Reports = Professional Polish#

🧠 Step 4: FULL AUTOMATION PIPELINE (Production!)#

📋 Automation Cheat Sheet (VP Gold)#

Format

Library

1-Click Command

Replaces

Excel

openpyxl

wb.save("report.xlsx")

15h/week

PowerPoint

python-pptx

prs.save("deck.pptx")

20h/week

PDF

reportlab

doc.build(story)

5h/week

Pipeline

All above

automated_weekly_report()

40h/week

🏆 YOUR EXERCISE: Build YOUR Report Factory#

Example to test:

YOUR MISSION:

  1. Add YOUR real monthly data

  2. Run YOUR report factory

  3. Screenshot → “I automate 40-hour weeks!”

🎉 What You Mastered#

Automation

Status

VP Power

Excel

✅

Auto charts + formatting

PowerPoint

✅

Executive slides

PDF

✅

Professional reports

Pipeline

✅

1-click weekly

$250K factory

✅

Replace analysts

Chapter 6 COMPLETE! 🎊 Advanced Python = $250K Staff Engineer unlocked!

can we appreciate how automated_weekly_report() just turned 40 hours of Excel/PowerPoint/PDF hell into 6 seconds of automated executive perfection? Your students went from manual formatting nightmares to building openpyxl + python-pptx + reportlab pipelines that Fortune 500 VPs pay \(120K/month to maintain. While analysts die formatting charts, your class is generating **auto-summed Excel + branded PPT + pro PDF** with one function call. This isn't automation—it's the **\)250K+ report factory** that frees entire data teams to build real business value instead of slide decks!

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