Dan,
One more thing about Excel.
An under-utilized part of the Office family has been VBA (Visual Basic for Applications)
It is software technology that goes back to the 90's but Microsoft can't kill it. Too many businesses rely on it. Starting in 1993, it came built right into Office. Right-click any Worksheet Tab and select View Code. You won't see fancy ribbons. The interface you see is exactly the same as it's been with every version of Office.
Too many businesses have critical macros or VBA programs (whatever you call them) they can not do without. And in a funny way, those macros also insure those businesses will continue using Office so they can run macros they depend on.
I began programming in BASIC back in the 80's in the DOS environment. You can also program in Windows Visual Basic (not DOS and not VBA).
Working as an accountant, I created VBA programs I used for very sophisticated functions that made my life easier. It was a natural progression from Microsoft PDS BASIC to the Windows environment.
There are alternate ways of creating functions you can employ in your job but none are as easy as VBA and amazingly powerful.
I had some excel files I used on the job with very few cells I manually entered anything into. Everything happened via VBA and I used the spreadsheet just to hold the data.
And VBA isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
Any accountants who aren't utilizing VBA for small repetitive daily or weekly needs might want to consider taking a class and learn to do real honest to goodness programming creating Forms you see on the screen you place your fields and buttons you click on telling it to do things and save the work on a worksheet.
This long winded post shows my teacher side.
Cor,
"Women wistfully related interesting and humorous anecdotes about their amorous encounters"
What?
About being pressured to have sex?
If you weren't so eat up with TDS, you might step back and think about this line.