I'm afraid DBDialog needs some work, and I promised Jamal I would do it, and haven't gotten to it yet. It will work sometimes, but there are a few places, especially when using it's related tables feature, where something might not work. Jamal has so many irons in the fire at once, I don't think this script is on his radar.
I do think, like Tiler does, that GW is working on making Access more accessible, and I'd certainly explore it now with their latest script, unless you just have it in mind not to use Access. You know, Outlook can do so much, and can do so much with it's contacts, one option I'd explore is to get a book on outlook and learn all about what it can do. for instance, it's easy enough to open the contacts list, go into the custom view designer so you can get to the fields dialog, and you can add new fields to your outlook contact record. I just added one to mine as an example, called VIP, and it's a yes/no field, meant so I can indicate when a contact is a visually impaired person. trouble is then you have to go into the form designer and add these new fields to the standard outlook contact form, or design your own outlook form. I don't know how to do outlook forms without a book telling me how to, but I do know this is possible, and you can do your reports in VBA (built into outlook) for instance, or buy crystal reports if you want that, as it will report on anything. Well, it's one other idea anyway, which if you were willing to invest the time, I'd guess would give you the most flexibility. Chip -----Original Message----- From: Stanley Littrell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 1:44 PM To: Steve Speicher Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: we-friendly database programs I know that the db dialogue script from www.gwmicro.com/sc really can be quite helpful ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Speicher" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 9:21 AM Subject: we-friendly database programs > I'm looking for a Window-Eyes-friendly database program alternative to > MS-Access. I want to be able to keep contact information (with > thirty-five to forty fields of data for each contact), pull that > information into letters to contacts who meet multiple search criteria > (such as all piano-tuners who live in the New England States and own > more than three > canoes) and design reports which can easily be formatted to be either > printed or embossed. I used to be able to do these things (except for > the braille embossing) with a DOS database program called PC-File. > All nominations welcome. If you have guidance about how to do these > tasks using MS Office 2007 without using MS-Access, please write me off list. > Thanks. > > Steve > > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original > sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your > message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your > message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You > can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 5318 (20100727) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
