Using Excel as a database and textfield
I bet millions of users have used it as a container for a flat file database.
Tyro wrote:
Nor a database processor
Tyro
"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
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You can put notes in a cell and things should work ok.
If your notes are pretty long (more than 1000 characters), you may find
that you
can't see all the text in the cell.
But you can add alt-enters (to force new lines within the cell) every
80-100
characters so you can see lots more than 1000 characters.
But excel doesn't make much of a word processor.
C Tate wrote:
I have found that Excel has some excellent capabilities as a database.
However, it seems to me that it is not so good if you need a free text
area.
For example, space to write a few notes about a particular record -
perhaps a
paragraph or two. Am I right in saying this? Perhaps somebody can prove
me
wrong. If so, I'd be grateful if you could point me in the direction of a
sample Excel database which uses text well!
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Dave Peterson
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