Re: OT?: Database/spreadsheet question

2009-07-01 Thread Al Poulin
On Jun 30, 8:34 pm, i...@sajego.net i...@sajego.net wrote: John, Garage Sale has matured a LOT since I last looked at it.  I   have an old license I can upgrade, so this is probably going to end   up being my most economical solution, though Fabian's AppleWorks   suggestion would have been

Re: OT?: Database/spreadsheet question

2009-06-30 Thread Fabian Fang
On Jun 29, 2009, at 10:01 PM, i...@sajego.net wrote: Waay back in the day, I used filemaker for donor records and such at the small nonprofit where I worked. You created the fields, arranged them in a data entry form and then created forms for address lists, thank you notes, tax

Re: OT?: Database/spreadsheet question

2009-06-30 Thread Al Poulin
On Jun 30, 1:10 am, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: Have you looked at Bento from Filemaker.  I haven't really looked at it but it's the light weight version of FileMaker Pro. http://www.filemaker.com/products/bento/overview.html?homepage=bento_... I like the idea of checking into

Re: OT?: Database/spreadsheet question

2009-06-30 Thread i...@sajego.net
Kris: I thought the NeoOffice database was scary. This was downright terrifying! (It did look cool, though, especially the forms feature.) John, Garage Sale has matured a LOT since I last looked at it. I have an old license I can upgrade, so this is probably going to end up being my

Re: OT?: Database/spreadsheet question

2009-06-30 Thread John Musbach
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:34 PM, i...@sajego.neti...@sajego.net wrote: Kris:  I thought the NeoOffice database was scary.  This was downright terrifying!  (It did look cool, though, especially the forms feature.) It feels a lot to me like Microsoft Access, without VBA support. It definitely

OT?: Database/spreadsheet question

2009-06-29 Thread i...@sajego.net
Waay back in the day, I used filemaker for donor records and such at the small nonprofit where I worked. You created the fields, arranged them in a data entry form and then created forms for address lists, thank you notes, tax deductible receipts, so on and so forth. Very simple.

Re: OT?: Database/spreadsheet question

2009-06-29 Thread Clark Martin
i...@sajego.net wrote: Waay back in the day, I used filemaker for donor records and such at the small nonprofit where I worked. You created the fields, arranged them in a data entry form and then created forms for address lists, thank you notes, tax deductible receipts, so on and so

Re: OT?: Database/spreadsheet question

2009-06-29 Thread John Musbach
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:01 AM, i...@sajego.neti...@sajego.net wrote: Waay back in the day, I used filemaker for donor records and such at the small nonprofit where I worked.  You created the fields, arranged them in a data entry form and then created forms for address lists, thank you

Re: OT?: Database/spreadsheet question

2009-06-29 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 30, 2009, at 12:01 AM, i...@sajego.net wrote: Can anybody point me to a simple and relatively cheap database solution or some sort of spreadsheet template? You might consider using Google Spreadsheets to store your stuff in the cloud, and have it accessible from all computers.