Same experience here, although it was 15 years ago! (And I made my lead tracker in Excel itself -- didn't move on to Access until the next project.) I still hold on to the first VBA for Excel programming book I got back then, purely for the nostalgia. Fun times!

Isn't it incredible that VBA is still around (and probably unchanged since the late 90's). Bummer that MS has let Access stagnate for the past decade.