RE: I need to create a table for maintaining Employee history-HELP

Thanks for reply.
I am familiar with Access and would prefer to use it. The history I want to
capture is absenteeism, job movement (dept to dept, etc), rate increases,
etc. If you have any suggestions I'd most grateful.
Thnx, Jan

"CyberTaz" wrote:

> Hi Jan-
>
> "History file" can mean a lot of different things. Although you could do
> this in a Word table, experience tells me you would be better off using
> Excel. It will provide you with much richer data management tools than Word.
> Depending on complexity of the data it might even be preferable to use a
> relational database like Access or FileMaker Pro if you are familiar with
> them.
>
> If you get started right, however, you can set up the initial file as a Word
> table then import it to Excel or a database file. But even if you don't work
> with Excel right now, it would be no just as easy (maybe easier) to set up
> the original data range in a work***.
>
> Just make sure that you put each usable data item in a separate table cell
> (or 'field'). For example, First Name & Last Name as 2 fields, not combined
> in one. The first row of the table should be the field names. Put each record
> on a separate row with no empty rows in between & no additional 'copies' of
> your field names.
>
> Regards |:>)
>
> "Jan at air-flo mfg" wrote:
>
> > I am in a quandry as to the best way of keeping history files for employees.
> > Any help would be appreciated.
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