This has been a fascinating thread to read.
I think if someone can figure out how to do stuff
in Excel and/or Word, then they should be able to
do some simple stuff like make and maintain a mailing
list in Access. I use Access to track contributions to
our church. I am NOT an expert in using Access, there
is a learning curve to it, but it's not bad for doing simple
things. I had been tracking the contributions with an
Excel workbook that someone gave me. It was ok, but
I found myself making data entry errors often Access
reduces that. It also makes it VERY EASY to print out
the end of year reports, once I got things set up. Setting
things up was a bit of a challenge the first time. But that's
done now, and if I'd done something similar before with
Access, I don't think it would have been as "hard".
As others have written there are other approaches to printing
labels and doing mailing list type stuff. Simpler databases,
using Word (or Wordperfect) using Excel and Word, etc.
M'$oft does charge a lot for Access, so if you've already
got the Office Suite without Access and all you want to do
is labels and/or mailing list things, Access isn't worth the $$$
IMO, unless you get a special deal as was mentioned.
I do disagree with the hype from M'$oft's website about
how things will be easier with the version 2007 edition
of the product. They always claim stuff like that. Only
rarely are such claims even half true.
jr
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