Re: Creating Catalogs on Excel

[Janet Valade <janetv -at- MAIL -dot- SYSTECH -dot- COM>]

Is there a reason you are required to use Excel? It's really not best for
this. An RDBMS would be better because you have several articles related to
one magazine issue and many issues related to one magazine name. Access
would be better. Actually, there is quite a bit of software out there
designed specifically for this purpose, that builds a database with the
fields you need. Software that is not necessarily expensive.

Janet

Janet Valade
Technical Writer
Systech Corp, San Diego, CA
mailto:janetv -at- systech -dot- com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alecia Lee [SMTP:alecial -at- HOTMAIL -dot- COM]
> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 1999 7:13 AM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Creating Catalogs on Excel
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> 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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