It started as a simple way to automate the boring stuff in Excel. In my very very junior days working I had to compile a neat dashboard from different sources which came in Excel format. Sometimes these workbooks had some mistakes, sometimes they were forms that were mangled by production managers (this before password protection and fixed layout forms were a thing — eeeesh),… it was mindless fixing, converting text to numbers, wrong date formats, aligning, copy pasting of hammer values from several files into a master file then printing it and dozens of forms onto an inkjet for the monthly operations meeting. What started as a full week job becomes 2 hours + printing after VBA started automating. The offending mangled forms had to be resent to the feeder managers with a note if they need additional help/advice how to overcome the limitations of the forms…).