Richard

I was pretty much similar to you, in the early 90s I started a computer business and I needed some software for documents to make up some books, I started with Word Perfect well that was not perfect lol, damn images would not stay where I put them.

A friend at the time introduced me to Microsoft Office, which had access included, and at the time I wasn’t interested in Access just Word and it was a lot better the word perfect :).

One day my girl friend ask if I knew how make a database, and we started to learn, wasn’t easy I started looking for something to learn more and Northwind was one of the templets, so I pulled that to peace’s and learned the hard way.

I ended up making a Phone Book database, remember the tickler Richard lol I still have the calendar, the tickler is part of the reminders?, ended up calling the database Phone Book 2000 cause that’s when it was finished.

I just finished rebuilding the new Phone Book for 2026 with Richards help of course image below