[78-L] 78s spreadsheet Excel vs. Access-thoughts on these?

[agp]

I have been trying to enter my collection into Access for a while. I 
do about 5 entries a day.

You can import data for Excel directly from .xls file or from a saved 
.csv file. The benefit of the .csv file is that Access may try to 
change things that look like number into numbers, but you may want to 
treat as text -- like catalog numbers. When you do an import from a 
.xls file you cannot change the data type as is it imported. Any 
catalogue numbers like 05627 will drop the leading zero. You can do 
this if you import from a .csv.

I do this sort of stuff in my work at my day job :-)

That said, while you can do lotsa cool things with Access, basically 
because you write the stuff yourself, its a pain in its own way. I'd 
like to find a good 'free' piece of software for record collectors

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