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
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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.