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.
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.