Not Excellent.

[growler_south]

I'm thinking of doing a night school or home tutoring course in Excel. It seems most everyone I know understands what its for and uses it for all sorts of things, I'd like to know what all the fuss is about. Its that thing with all the boxes eh?

I know, its something I'm supposed to have learned as a baby, like my multiplication tables. Then again, I bet you dont know how an SU carburettor works.

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[growler-south.livejournal.com]

Ah! that explains a lot of the functionality I dont understand. Maybe I should be learning...*consults palmtop, which has more MS officey-type softwares than $8k PC* ...Access? I can see the potential of a database more than I can for Excel...

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

*hisses*

Access stinks on ice in a blizzard. I have several friends who do database work for a living, and they ALL cringe when that word is mentioned.

If you want to learn something common and consumer oriented, there's FileMaker Pro. Something a bit more heavy-duty, there's 4th Dimension. Something free (as in beer) there's MySQL.

[sinnabor.livejournal.com]

FileMaker Pro rocks. It is The Shit.

Years ago I created a database of addresses that had to be changed when I moved. I used FileMaker Pro with a form based on digitized copies of the USPS change-of-address postcard with the proper text overlayed on top of the graphics (in Courier, of course), and with POSTNET barcodes in the destination address, and printed them out double-sided onto postcards.

Total overkill, of course, but I'll do a lot to avoid handwriting.