Plus, Excell has a search and replace function, which I find
extraordinarily useful, in case I want to change terminology (say, if I want to change
"75th and Madison" to "75th and Madison Avenue", because there is also a
Madison Street.
I always wince when we convert databases (after final editing) from a
simple WordPerfect table to Filemaker Pro, a "more professional" format which
does not have that function. I don't know about Access, however.
Christopher Gray
Office for Metropolitan History
246 West 80th Street, #8, NYC 10024
212-799-0520 fax -0542
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In a message dated 10/5/2010 9:16:27 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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As a new town historian, I inherited a number of large scrapbooks filled
with local newspaper articles cut and pasted into their pages covering a
spread of many years. Until now, they have only been used by occasional
curiosity seekers thumbing through pages until they tire of reading them. I would
like to index them on computer so that researchers could find specific
people, places, and events. I am thinking of using microsoft word tables (I
cannot afford access.) to create lists that provide book, page, people names,
place names, and events that we can then use the "find" tool to locate.
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