Re: Problems because of varying size of fields.

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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