1982. Arthur Andersen's Amsterdam office. I helped unpack their first IBM pc. (Intel 8086, 128kb !! and 2 floppy drives). It had this interesting little application called VisiCalc. Soon you needed a reservation to use it. And yes, if you were lucky it was from from 3:00 to 6:00 at night...
Around a year later we upgraded to Lotus 1-2-3.

1985. Oracle's European HQ. Learning to work with databases and their SQL-CALC, a 123 clone but with SQL functionality that I've never seen since.

1990. I began using Excel, I think it was version 3.0

2002. I now have 20 years of spreadsheet experience.

My background is in Financial reporting and International consolidations.
My philosophy: keep it simple but flexible and make it look good.

I try to make cleanly designed templates, easy to understand and navigate. Orderforms/Invoicing, Budgets, Reporting, Consolidation (multi currency).

A good design requires time, skill & user feedback.
But it pays itself back in a BIG way.