Re: Problems because of varying size of fields.

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Thank you for answering so promptly. My database consists of 1. An italian
word, the next column its type, the next column its pronunciation, the next
column its translation - and here a varying number of words will have to be
intered, next column examples of use of the word - and here a still more
varying number of words have to be entered.

It is essentially a text database - needs only the facility to sort
alphabetically. That is why tables in Words work so well.
--
Git Denmark


"Al Camp" skrev:

> With 3500 records, or possibly even more... Access would be the best bet.
> You may have to do a bit of "overhead" labor to convert, but the savings in
> the future will be worth it.
>
> > - and also allowing varying numbers of Words to be entered in the same
> > row.
> Not quite sure what you mean by that. If you want to give more details
> about your Word records (Samples) and explanation of what the data means, we
> can go from there.
> hth
> Al Camp
> Candia Computer Consulting - Candia NH
> http://home.comcast.net/~cccsolutions
>
>
> "Birgitte" <birgitte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:C276D644-0058-43F7-8702-B60F827C408D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >I had been using tables (Word) as a text database but had reached 150
> >pages
> > and feared that I would soon come into trouble because of the size in
> > spite
> > of the fact that the table could still be sorted without difficulties. I
> > was
> > advise to use Eccell or Access instead. The database consists of text only
> > but in two of the fields the contents are of a varying word number and
> > varying line number. That gave problems as the database then could not be
> > sorted. And also a much more time consuming tasak of entering new posts:
> > In
> > Word tables I could just enter new posts anyware and subsequently sort the
> > table. Now I have to find the correct site in the database before entering
> > a
> > new post.
> > I obviously need a program without a lot of facilities but for sorting
> > text
> > and allowing a great number of posts (at the present time I have appr.
> > 3500)
> > - and also allowing varying numbers of Words to be entered in the same
> > row.
> > What can I do?
> >
> > --
> > Git Denmark
>
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>
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