Here it is:

Isn't that a thing of beauty?

Well, okay, maybe it isn't. But if you had any idea how many hours it took to get that simple image to show up on the screen, you'd understand my enthusiasm.

'Course, that's only step One of dozens, if not hundreds, more steps to come.

Not that the process is actually that hard. There's a gal in the Outfit who could, I'm sure, recreate that map from scratch in less than 30 seconds. I've watched her work. But she has a Master's Degree in this software.

Not in the process, mind you. Which has been around for decades (I had my postgraduate introduction to it in the 1970s). Nor is her degree in the professional applications of GIS (Geographic Information Systems, not to be confused with GPS, which almost everybody seems to want on their dash).

No, she has a Master's Degree in this particular software product.

Whoever heard of advanced degrees in the use of software products?

But after spending hours with the tutorials and menus, I can understand why you have to go to postgraduate classes to understand this software. This company is worse than Microsoft. Nobody there speaks English (or, I suspect, any other human language).

No, it's all "technoese"...

"Setting the property filter Effects for a link or sublink element"

"Rectified Skewed Orthomorphic map projection properties"

"enforcing referential integrity with relationship classes"

If I knew what all those words meant, in the context of this software, I wouldn't need the Help function.

Now, sometime soon, it is on to step Two.