>>Now he can prowl with Excel to his heart's content, and I am not stuck generating custom forms/reports at his every whim.
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>The reports, oh my god the reports!, well I can't escape that one, rather we've worked together on having all the reports they need ... with all the work and refining that implies, I guess I just accept it as part of the whole development cycle.

Yes indeed! The client tales a 10 second peek at your hours of labor and says: "What about we do this instead?..." Gets pretty old fast. I was forced into this app after working with him for 6 months to try and find something off the shelf that would do the job. The closest we could find was DOS based and not a viable option. Also very expensive. I told him I would do it in Windows for the same price. He bit :>) Now he thinks very heavily before asking for enhancements. I just handed him his purchase order module yesterday for a test drive and he was estatic. Looks like an early weekend! Have a great one.