I’m researching how people automate repetitive Excel/CSV workflows in day-to-day work.

I’m building a desktop tool to set up these processes visually, but before going further I want to understand what actually hurts today. I’m not selling anything in this post, just trying to learn from real-world cases.

If you work with this kind of thing, I’d really appreciate your input:

- What was the last annoying Excel/CSV workflow you automated?

- How often does it run?

- What was the most frustrating part: combining files, cleaning data, standardizing columns, deduplicating, exporting, etc.?

- Are you the only one who runs it, or do other people need to run it too?

- What do you use today: Power Query, VBA, Python, Power BI, something else?

Thanks!