About
Contextures
Contextures is a consulting firm located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada,
specializing in Microsoft Office programming and development, and serving
local and international clients.
I’m Debra Dalgleish, the owner and lead consultant. Self-employed since
1985, I started by doing word processing on a Macintosh (upgraded to
512K), with an external floppy drive, and no hard drive. The first two
programs that I used were MacPaint and MacWrite. Soon I got MultiPlan
and Microsoft Word, and was excited by all the new things they could
do.
The next big program I got was Excel, and I expanded my business into
that area. In the mid 90s, when Windows 3.1 was released, I gradually
switched to a PC, because that’s what my clients were using. I did computer
training, wrote training manuals, continued with word processing, and
created spreadsheets.
In 1996 I was asked to teach an introductory course in Access 2.0,
so I learned that too. At the end of that year I created my first database
for a client. Since then, we’ve converted the database to newer versions,
but it’s still going strong!
Currently my work load is about 40% Excel programming, 40% Access development,
and 20% other Microsoft Office projects, such as Word and PowerPoint.
A few clients still use Office 2000, a few have upgraded to Office 2007,
and the rest use Office XP or Office 2003. It’s challenging to remember
where the commands are in all those versions!
I’ve written three books on Excel pivot tables, and you can read the
outlines here:
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