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I was wondering if anyone had any experience using Microsoft Access 2000.
One of the projects that I am working on requires me to create a database of
personnel that includes all of their contact information and picture as well
as the major projects that the person is working on. The trick is that the
database has to have the ability to sort through the employees based on
their projects, title or department name because it will be used
internationally as a way to give the partner countries the ability to see
who they will be working with in the future. Because many of the people
have multiple project and thus multiple items in the project field, I have
not been able to get the program to filter through the entire field. It
will only bring up those people who only have that one item listed in the
project box, and only if I put the exact name that is in the field in the
filter. For example, if I enter Project 1, it only brings up those people
who have exactly Project 1, but I need it to also bring up those people who
are Project 1 Lead. Are you starting to see my problem?? If you know of
any way that I can manipulate Access to do what I want please let me know or
if you even know of a program that will do exactly what I am asking that
would be a great help also. Please keep in mind that this will eventually
be linked to a web site and must be a searchable file. (Also, I do not know
HTML or any other web based programming so that's kind of eliminated).
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