Re: why>?

dbahooker@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote...
for the record? every company in the WORLD should have access but screw
outlook, excel, word

keep EVERYTHING in a database
....

So you don't know how e-mail clients like Outlook store e-mail? They
use databases, but highly specialized ones presumably optimized to
handle variable length message bodies. So Outlook is already using a
database, just one with a different format than MDB or SQL Server
databases and maybe without a SQL query interface.

I doubt that last bit, lacking a SQL query interface. I don't use (have
never used) Outlook, so I have no idea what it provides, and I have no
inclination to go searching through the web to find out. I do know that
Lotus Notes provides a SQL query interface to its database files,
including user e-mail files, and I'd be VERY surprised if Outlook
didn't as well.

So it looks like either you're ignorant of how e-mail client software
works, or you are so limited in your own mental process and capacity
that you can only learn how to use a single application, and that's
Access, so you leap to the conclusion that everyone else should use
Access for everything. Note that these two alternatives aren't mutually
exclusive.

With regard to ditching Word in favor of Access, kinda awkward to
generate tables of contents, indices, tables of authorities in Access.
Granted rich text fields provide much of the local editing features any
word processor does, maybe even automatic (rather than manual)
outlining features, but complex documents with multiple sections? You
really have no clue, do you?

.

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