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Python-First Excel Engineering: Full-Stack Automation with VBA Backward Compatibility: Rebuild Excel from the ground up—smarter, faster, and future, proof ... Automation for Modern Analysts Book 3)

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Python-First Excel Full-Stack Automation with VBA Backward Compatibility
Rebuild Excel from the ground up—smarter, faster, and future-proof.

Python-First Excel Engineering is the definitive guide to transforming legacy spreadsheets into modern, full-stack automation systems using Python as the backbone, without sacrificing VBA compatibility.

Built for engineers, analysts, and developers working in finance, operations, or enterprise environments, this book shows you how to architect dynamic Excel solutions that blend Python’s power with Excel’s familiarity and VBA’s reach.

Inside, you’ll to convert legacy VBA workflows into modular, Python-first logic

Seamless integration with Excel using xlwings, OpenPyXL, and Pandas

Triggering Python functions from buttons, forms, and VBA event handlers

Creating Excel-powered interfaces for automated back-end systems

Using Python for API calls, real-time data feeds, and cloud syncing

Structuring projects like software, version control, environments, testing

Packaging Excel-Python hybrids into distributable internal tools

This is not a beginner’s book. It’s a professional blueprint for those ready to engineer Excel like a software product—modular, robust, and infinitely scalable.

Bridge the gap. Elevate your stack. Future-proof your Excel.

614 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 11, 2025

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