“And eventually I just decided I need to take control of this. And bit by bit, I started to chip away, automate my work. And that's when I started Excel Off The Grid to try and kind of share what I'd learned and help other people to do similar things.”

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gradually automated his finance work and created the Excel Off The Grid blog to share automation techniques

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