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Subject:Re: Creating Catalogs on Excel From:Tim Altom <taltom -at- SIMPLYWRITTEN -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:42:02 -0500
Actually, Alecia, I'd hope that you'd use something far more expandable than
Excel. I'd develop something like this in Access or some other database
application, so that I could port it out later as a searchable website or
CD. We make it a policy here to maintain our options as widely as possible.
If you must have a very low-level database, just use Word's tables. They're
searchable and portable.
Tim Altom
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From: Alecia Lee <alecial -at- HOTMAIL -dot- COM>
To: <TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 1999 10:12 AM
Subject: Creating Catalogs on Excel
>I'm creating a library/index for the marketing magazines at my company.
>The magazines are used for marketing research. I was wondering if any of
>you have any experience creating something like this in Excel 97. What
>we need is a database that includes a list of the title, issue, and a
>brief summary of the significant articles of each magazine.
>
>What is the best way to approach this kind of indexing as well as make
>it easy to access for the employees when they want to find a magazine
>article, using Excel 97?
>
>Thank you,
>Alecia Lee
>
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