From: donlhumphries@bigpond.com   
      
   "Steve Urbach"  wrote in message   
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   > On Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:10:20 +0000, Java Jive    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>I suspect the problem is with your data and your (comparative lack of)   
   >>understanding how to store it efficiently, rather than with your   
   >>software.  I can't recall what difference there is between MS Works'   
   >>database facilities and MS Access proper, but, until you understand   
   >>how to store data efficiently, you won't be able to tell whether MS   
   >>Works can do what you want or not, and you would still have a problem   
   >>even with a more professional database system.   
   >>   
   >>On Sat, 2 Feb 2013 05:29:12 +1100, "DonH"    
   >>wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> # Thanks, but looks too way-out for me.   
   >>>    What does MS Access cover?  Or do I have to go Professional, and   
   >>> spend   
   >>> lots of $?   
   > IIRC Works is only a flatfile DB   
   > Access is a full relational DB   
   >   
   > If low cost for a Relational DB   
   > Libre Office (Open Office) Base is hard to beat in the price point :)   
      
   # Of course, the solution is obvious, even if not completely satisfactory -   
   use MS folders and files themselves, as a hierarchy.   
       Thus, the Geological Eras would be folders, within which Periods would   
   be individual files.   
       This gives an on-screen layout which can be printed by use of PrtScn   
   button, and Paint.   
       Description of each Period can be recorded within the appropriate file.   
       Still, Microsoft might think about providing a classification system, as   
   such - this facility would have many applications, as we tend to define and   
   group things all the time.   
       The present Works Database would be enhanced thereby.   
      
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