Since everyone is trading stories, here is mine: I once worked in a newspaper at the start of desktop publishing (DTP) and Word. They received the news from Reu

Since everyone is trading stories, here is mine: I once worked in a newspaper at the start of desktop publishing (DTP) and Word. They received the news from Reuters (as an example) in some strange format and had two people employed specifically to reformat and correct that text using Word before going to DTP. I wrote a Word macro (more like half recorded, half edited) that did 90% of the work because it was painful for me to see those people speed editing that text over and over again. They were very happy but they begged me not to tell their boss as they were afraid they would loose their job.