AutomateXL

In spite of the fact that there are dozens of utilities that include numerous features that can help keep track of financial data updated and secure, in reality numerous company still rely on Microsoft Excel. Since working with another app is out of the question, the least you can do to make your work more efficient is automate the repetitive tasks that you need to perform on a regular basis.

As the name suggests, AutomateXL is an application that can save you time and energy by enabling your to perform tedious tasks, such as converting to upper case or deleting empty columns, for instance, automatically.

First off, you should know that you need to have Excel installed on your computer, as after all this is an add-in that can be accessed from the spreadsheet editor's toolbar. The highlight of the utility stems from the fact that it enables you to perform monotonous tasks – such as switching to lower and uppercase or adding a custom word for instance – automatically. It can save you a lot of time and can reduce the number of human errors that can be made while editing documents.

A noteworthy function is the automatic modification of text content to proper, lower, sentence or upper case. You can clean or convert any text by selecting it from the Excel spreadsheet and then accessing the desired action.

You should know that the utility can also come in handy when formatting the spreadsheet, namely that it can automatically wipe rows, columns and cells that are empty. It can find and erase duplicates or other types of data (number, alphabetic, non-alphabetic, alphanumeric, etc.) that you want to remove from a file that you intend to send a business partner or potential customer.

Speaking of emails, the add-in enables you to merge and attach sheets and workbooks to Microsoft Outlook directly, so you do not waste time with saving them on your local drives and possibly, double checking them before you send them. While the app includes dozens of macros, you can also create your own based on the operations you commonly perform in Excel.

If you need to make modifications or change the formatting to Excel spreadsheets that contain large amounts of data, then AutomateXL could lend you a hand.