RE: What's the best way to organize this stuff?
- From: "Dave the Sys. Admin." <DavetheSysAdmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:46:52 -0700
I would recommend looking into "importing" the information from your Word
doc. to an Access database. I have limited knowledge of Access but I think
you can "import" information from another document and you will have the
oppurtunity to "map" the information to certain column headings/sub-headings
etc.
Just a thought.
"Max" wrote:
> I am working on project at my job. It is not a time-sensitive project, but
> the data is becoming a bit unwieldy the way I have it.
>
> It is a list of non-profit organizations and their newsletter information.
> I have, for example, the name of the organization and a main phone number;
> sometimes a secondary number or extension; sometimes an email address;
> sometimes I have a contact name, sometimes I have no contact name, sometimes
> there is more than one contact name (as well as assorted phone numbers, with
> or without extension numbers, with one, none or more email addresses);
> sometimes a department and/or title. Then I have a note indicating that the
> organization has or hasn't a newsletter. Sometimes the newsletter has a
> name. Sometimes I have the distribution count (which is not always related
> to the organizations' total number of members.) Then there are two types of
> information for the newsletters: general publication information, and
> commercial advertising rates.
>
> I am not sure if I should just keep it as it is, which is just a list in a
> Word document, or if I should type it all up as an Access database, or as a
> simple (but long) table in Word. (I am not considering Excel for two reasons
> -- one is that Excel I think is better for numbers or financial applications,
> and two is that I am not at all familiar with using Excel, whereas I have a
> limited experience with Access). OTOH, re-doing it in a different
> application means me re-typing all the data.
>
> Thanks for your advice in advance.
>
> In Peace,
> Max
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