Tony Septav
iggy at nanaimo.ark.com
Fri Jul 3 08:27:22 CDT 2009
Hey Arthur The simple reason I left it that way is because the employer insisted upon it. Made me laugh. Damn clients. Many years ago I had a client who had been sold on the fact that their EXCEL program (not really a program, just monthly/yearly worksheets) should really be converted over to a database program. They contacted me and I said "Yes I could do it.". They said "One stipulation the new program has to maintain the look and feel of the original worksheet". That was no easy feat. An Aside That gig gave me a whole new respect for Excel. My first program (years and years ago) was an Investment Receipt program designed in VisiCalc (DOS) and completely macro driven (macros macros everywhere) and it worked fine for 2 or 3 years before we converted it over to a database and it is still running today (with many database updates).