Katie,

With Access, you can store the data and make your mailing labels (it's a
Report, and there's a wizard for labels). Pulling the data you need is
easy. In Excel, you'll have to use Word or Access to do the labels (either
can use an Excel list) , unless you want to write macro code in Excel (why
bother?). The Mail Merge in Word also has querying capability to pick the
records you want. If you don't already have Access or Excel, consider
putting the list in a Word table and doing it all there. Or use Excel (if
you already have it) for the list, and Word for the labels using the Excel
list.
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Earl Kiosterud
www.smokeylake.com
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"KatieVolunteers" wrote in
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Is there any advantage to using Access over Excel for a simple database
containing names, addresses, phone numbers and basic biographical
information? I will eventually want to create mailing labels from the
database and extract email addresses to send group emails.