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This behavior is annoying as hell, but I also think it's for the best. Excel specifically was way too trusting, has a full development environment with the ability to auto-run macros, and has become a convenient vector for delivering malicious code.
I once made an xlsx with a VBA module and put it in my often-late coworkers' startup folder. It would check log-on time and if it was between 9:01am and 9.59am it would send an email to the rest of the team apologizing for being late that day.
Stunning that I could do that on what was supposedly a locked-down internal system.
I once used VBA to script and automate 90% of my old desk job. I just needed a way to automate keyboard input and some basic conditional controls.
I couldn't install python or run batch scripts as the machine was heavily locked down, but luckily MS provided all the tools I needed inside excel. System admins hate this one trick, thanks microsoft!
haha yeah same. We had this terrible internal CMS that I would automate the hell out of.