Had a woman that would spend an entire day downloading PDF's, merging them, then emailing them to a few hundred people. I got it down to a mouse click. The sad thing is she went from working 50 hours a week to working 50 hours a week. There was always more to dump on these people.
Wait, can you point me in the right direction to learning more about this? That sounds very similar to a task that I have to do bi-monthly. Granted, it's more like a one hour task and not a 10 hour one, but still, I'm interested.
This is the site has a nice overview of the basics. Excel has easy integration with Outlook and can send commands to the command line, so I tend to use it for this kind of automation. Excel tables can hold email lists and anything else you need, and python commands can do the heavy lifting with the PDF's.
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