Depends on the benefit you're after. For a "senior citizen waiver" on tuition for audited classes at my local community/technical college, 60's enough (and yes, I'm auditing classes - Circuit Analysis I last semester, Circuit Analysis II and Digital Systems I this quarter - eventually I'll be able to start building my very own personal Cylons!). -Bob

My first Visual product was an early version of Visual C++, personally handed to me for free by Bill Gates himself, right after Software Development 91 ended in SF. We were sitting around talking with the David Intersimone from Borland, who'd just given us all free TurboC++ packages, and he called Bill over and introduced us to him as the newest TurboC++ developers. At that point, one of the MS lackeys was summarily dispatched to get copies of Visual C++ for Bill to hand out to us. It was great - both of the new C++ development products for free!

Wait until you try conditional formatting from inside macros. Here's something I wish somebody had told me: Don't use formulas with the "A1"/"AD12"/etc. type of cell addresses. At least in Excel 2003, using the A1 style, I'd print out what I was about to put into the formulas, then print out what Excel claimed was in the formulas - they'd match exactly what I expected, but at the end of the process, when you went back to see why your conditional formatting wasn't working, the formulas were garbled. Eventually I tried using the R1C1 type (and also the R[#]C[#] type) cell addressing and everything worked just fine. I sure wish I could get that month of my life back...