on 11/01/2004 16:40, Walt Atwood at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am a co-founding member of the Allegheny Region Macintosh Users Group, a > small, rural MUG in north-western Pennsylvania and south-western New York. > > My first posting involves Office v. X as a whole, as I am not aware of any > mailing list for the entire suite. > > Next weekend, the 17th and 18th, I will be helping with a winter festival > which includes sled dog races (sprints, all 6 miles or less) and I wanted to > see if it was possible to use Office v. X on an iBook (500 MHz) to create a > database of contestants, print out reports of the entrants into each race > class for a hardcopy "race roster" to be used "on the ground" by race > officials, and tabulate the races results at the end of the weekend so the > names, places, and hometowns of the teams can be e-mailed to the news media. > > I'd like to see the finished product provided in Word or Excel so > sleddogcentral.com could publish the results on their "race results" pages, > as well as providing it to local newspapers. It would also be nice if we > could produce the hardcopy roster with the "mug shot" and bib number of each > of the drivers so they could be readily identified. Another added benefit > would be if e-mail addresses provided when teams sign-up Saturday morning > could be turned over to a contact group in Entourage so e-mail notification > of off-season race news could be easily conducted. > > How difficult would all this be?
What's wrong with using a database system like FileMaker? It would be much easier to use than Word and Excel. As you said yourself, you need a database. -- Matthew Smith -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
