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| Thread ID: 57175 | 2005-04-25 18:51:00 | Data base for beginners | tylden (4262) | Press F1 |
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| 348675 | 2005-04-25 18:51:00 | I'm about to take over a club treasurer's job which will involve maintaining a record of club membership and preparing a monthly mailing list. I've got Access 2000 which I know will work, but I want to use a programme that is cheap and simple and preferably downloadable so that I can pass on the info at the end of the year to someone who may not have Access (does it come with XP Home?) We've only got about 250 members, no big deal. | tylden (4262) | ||
| 348676 | 2005-04-25 21:12:00 | try here jansfreeware.com |
beama (111) | ||
| 348677 | 2005-04-25 21:48:00 | Most of the free "Office" type programmes include a database - eg OpenOffice. I think even Works that often comes free with new OEM installations of XP include a basic database app. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 348678 | 2005-04-25 22:29:00 | Hi tylden. How many fields will you have? Fields would include Title, Initials, Surname, Street, Suburb, Town, Joined, DatePaid, etc? Rough your idea on a piece of paper first. Reason for asking... a Word Table will make a neat database, which can be sorted, added to, deleted from, produce labels, make Mail Merge for individual letters (subs due type of thing). If sending it on, you have no worries about others having suitable databases. :cool: | Scouse (83) | ||
| 348679 | 2005-04-25 22:56:00 | The obvious solution is MSWORKS. This has a very powerful but simple database in it. Plenty of copies of MSWORKS are knocking around from people who do not need them any more and should be easy to pick up. Avoid Access. Powerful but a bastard to learn. All versions of MSWORKS dbase seem quite compatible with each other. I have been using it and advising clients to use it for about 10 years now and have never found anything simpler. It is a Flat File database so cannot use information from other databases. But I find that no problem. My daily log now has more than 5000 entries in it since year 2000 and finds info in tiny bits of seconds. I love demonstrating to unbelieving salesmen in computer stores that I can write the sort of database you need in about 45 seconds - finished - lots of cells - dead reliable - fast - and incredably easy to use. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 348680 | 2005-04-26 00:30:00 | Support Thomas01. When I moved to Office 2003 I kept Works 4.5 just for a few small databases, the largest having only 1200 names. ;) | Scouse (83) | ||
| 348681 | 2005-04-26 17:54:00 | Thanks to all. This gives me plenty of ideas. | tylden (4262) | ||
| 348682 | 2005-04-27 00:21:00 | orthis (www.mysql.com) which is multiplatform and free | plod (107) | ||
| 348683 | 2005-04-27 03:08:00 | Most of the free "Office" type programmes include a database - eg OpenOffice. . Sorry Greg, I have to correct you, when version 2.0 of OpenOffice.org is released, it will include a database (2.0 is still in beta). Version 1.x of OpenOffice doesn't include one (StarOffice does though). If all you do is maintain a mailing list, you could use the spreadsheet in OpenOffice.org and its free (as in speech, not as in bear) |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 348684 | 2005-04-27 03:47:00 | Depending I guess on what you want with the mailing list, but worth looking at Cashbook Complete, on the monthly CD Don |
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