In newer versions of Excel, Power Query makes it easy, if you can be bothered to learn Power Query...it doesn't matter if the tables are a bit off, because it i

In newer versions of Excel, Power Query makes it easy, if you can be bothered to learn Power Query...it doesn't matter if the tables are a bit off, because it is a complete functional-esque language. Like SQL plus easy higher order functions. PDFs can often be extracted too in a similar way. I feel exhausted every time I see another thread on HN about what to do when you will not learn Excel & Office because it's for PHBs and secretaries.