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I'm just wondering what the pro's here think the answer would be to
this question. Would a school markbook program be more suitable as an Excel project or an Access project? I know it would be possible to come up with something in either program, but what would be the more natural and easy fit? TIA Ric |
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Hi Ric
If a project like that has "one-to-many-relations" or "many-to-many-relations" then it is database work, not spreadsheet work. One-to-many relations work like this: One building, one or more fathers. One father, one or more children. One child, one or more books many-to-many relations in this context: Many books, many authors. HTH. Best wishes Harald skrev i melding oups.com... I'm just wondering what the pro's here think the answer would be to this question. Would a school markbook program be more suitable as an Excel project or an Access project? I know it would be possible to come up with something in either program, but what would be the more natural and easy fit? TIA Ric |
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I guess Access will be a better option as it more flexible with data in these
kind of applications. Excel might get a bit complicated with macros and vb requirements. Manoj " wrote: I'm just wondering what the pro's here think the answer would be to this question. Would a school markbook program be more suitable as an Excel project or an Access project? I know it would be possible to come up with something in either program, but what would be the more natural and easy fit? TIA Ric |
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Hi Ric,
I'm no expert, but I have made a markbook using Excel. I looked into doing the same using File Maker Pro data base and very quickly discovered that manipulation of marks is much more difficult with a data base. eg a ranked list of students is very easy in Excel but I gave up trying to figure out how to do it with the data base. Ken Johnson |
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Or...store the data in Access and build the reporting/calculations in
Excel??? -- HTH Nick Hodge Microsoft MVP - Excel Southampton, England www.nickhodge.co.uk HIS wrote in message oups.com... I'm just wondering what the pro's here think the answer would be to this question. Would a school markbook program be more suitable as an Excel project or an Access project? I know it would be possible to come up with something in either program, but what would be the more natural and easy fit? TIA Ric |
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Nick Hodge wrote:
Or...store the data in Access and build the reporting/calculations in Excel??? Thanks for the replies guys. Is that really practical Nick, to use two apps at the same time? I'd be looking to package this if I do it with a runtime. Can I use a combo Excel/Access runtime? Ric |
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No Excel does not have a runtime -- HTH Nick Hodge Microsoft MVP - Excel Southampton, England www.nickhodge.co.uk HIS wrote in message oups.com... Nick Hodge wrote: Or...store the data in Access and build the reporting/calculations in Excel??? Thanks for the replies guys. Is that really practical Nick, to use two apps at the same time? I'd be looking to package this if I do it with a runtime. Can I use a combo Excel/Access runtime? Ric |
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Nick Hodge wrote: Rick No Excel does not have a runtime What the heck's a runtime? Ken Johnson |
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Ken Johnson wrote:
Nick Hodge wrote: Rick No Excel does not have a runtime What the heck's a runtime? It's a stripped down version of the program, which allows it to be run on an a computer that doesn't have the full program. So you can run an Access db on a computer that doesn't have the full version of Access. Ric |
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