Database software usually works better than spreadsheets - easier reporting and screen design, more flexible fields (eg muliple entries for a particular field type). Access should work fine. There's a learning curve but it's plenty powerful for a "retail" app with a few thousand records.
There are many similar out there. If you use one with a SQL "back end" you'll be able to move your data essentially onto any system anywhere for the next 50 years and use any of hundreds of "front ends" to define your database and produce reports. But Access s/b more than sufficient; I don't think it's a native SQL app, but it can probably access SQL databases. And it's common and relatively easy to use. Rufus > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Lee Huddleston > Sent: 07/20/11 08:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Liveaboard] Inventory Software > > I recently inventoried every tool on board s/v Truelove with hand-written > notes. I would like to find a good program for recording and sorting the > information. Would Excell or Access work? Or are there dedicated programs > that you have been using and with which you are pleased? > > > > Lee Huddleston > > s/v Truelove _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
