True, but you have to admit Excel is a lot easier to use for small
databases, than Access is to use for spreadsheets!

Tyro wrote:

Excel is not database software.
Excel is speadsheet software


Tyro
"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
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Thanks for your tips.

I'll give them the consideration they deserve.

Tyro wrote:

Grand response. In other words, Excel is not a database.

"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
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Thanks for the suggestion.

I'd bet when people use excel as a database, it looks more like a flat
file--not
a relational database.



Tyro wrote:

A flat file is not a database. It is a flat file. Perhaps you might
want
to
look into databases, especially realational databases
Tyro

"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
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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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