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CrashTester · 18 Apr 2005, 00:10

Can I ask why you think your dad needs to use access instead of excel? Does he need to produce reports or manipluate the data in anyway or is it simply a case of book keeping?

If it's the latter then I think access is not the answer (it seems like a lot of work to me).

Surely excel will do the job by having a seperate workbook for each month and a new spreadsheet for each new year. Each days details would be entered as a new row and the data you require in columns.

18 Apr 2005, 00:10	#11
CrashTester I am an idiot Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,145	Re: [database] Help me sort this out in my brain! Can I ask why you think your dad needs to use access instead of excel? Does he need to produce reports or manipluate the data in anyway or is it simply a case of book keeping? If it's the latter then I think access is not the answer (it seems like a lot of work to me). Surely excel will do the job by having a seperate workbook for each month and a new spreadsheet for each new year. Each days details would be entered as a new row and the data you require in columns.