Excel also. Sometimes, in a locked-down corporate environment but where every PC comes with a pretty powerful language and IDE built-in, it's simply easier to D

Excel also. Sometimes, in a locked-down corporate environment but where every PC comes with a pretty powerful language and IDE built-in, it's simply easier to DIY than go through a process of approval and budgets. This does raise the very good question of maintainability and legacy use after I'm gone, a medium term solution is to ensure others proficient in VBA and computer science in general are on the team, and a long term auditable solution to ensure the process being automated stays documented and not magic. I enjoy VBA, combined with Excel it can do a lot.