Introduction

Greetings all!

I found this site doing some research on using spreadsheets. I am self employed as a manufacturer's agent. For over 20 years I have used a contact management program call ACT! And for many years I have viewed Excel spreadsheets sent to me by companies I represent for my records and sometimes to make corrections and updates.

But I have very little experience creating my own. So busy running a business and in recent years struggling to keep my income at a decent level I really have not had time to improve my knowledge in this area.

I use a PC since ACT! has only a PC platform. Recently purchased a MacBook Air. Not sure on the future as I may stay with PCs or go to a more powerful Mac and use the Parallel program to use both platforms. Loaded Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 yesterday and want to duplicate the spreadsheets I create on the PC in the Mac. I won't bore you all with the horror stories of the PC crashes and even had a close call with data that was supposedly being backed up but wasn't actually getting backed up. Yes, I am probably going a bit overboard with the redundancy but I like to sleep at night.

Looking forward to interacting with folks here.

Hope everyone is having a good Christmas.