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               I can’t help feeling a little dubious, dear reader, when software companies make the claim that they can Easily Import Data to Excel!   My first question is, easy for who?   Afterall, I can easily help my friend unload his belongings by shoving them out the back of a moving van.   I wouldn’t call the results very useful, or pretty. You would imagine that software designed for the benefit of the finance community would play nice with Excel, given its ubiquity.   Instead, the bean counters are treated to software devs who think their reports are pieces of art to be hung above desks and mantlepieces.   They do not want their data being extracted and thrown into those ugly cells, formatted down to become some line item in a common ledger!   Thankfully, Leila Gharani provides us with an incredibly useful solution that, like the best things in Excel, can be automated after doing a little bit of work up fr...