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Posted the above topic eight years ago. Wondering if there have been any good updates/releases of collecting software/categorization besides Excell that exist?
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I have been very satisfied using an Excel spreadsheet.
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Still with Excel.
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What sort of things do you track with Excel? More curious than anything.
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My original sheets have:

Year, Mint, Variety (when necessary), Value, Date (found or purchased), Paid, Grade, Notes (where bought or found, known provenance, etc.)


When I started collecting graded Ikes I altered the columns for that sheet:

Year, Mint, Variety, Value, Purchased (date), Paid, Grade, TPG (PCGS, NGC, etc), Registration (number on slab), Seller (where I bought).
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I use excel ,not good with it but it works for me.
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Access Database with a whole bunch of Visual Basic.
I swing a metal detector and have a knack for finding dirty old coins.
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Access Database with a whole bunch of Visual Basic.
Respect.
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hehehe - too much time on my hands

will always be a WIP

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I swing a metal detector and have a knack for finding dirty old coins.
Dirt coin restoration projects - https://www.prodetecting.com/restorations
Dirt coin restoration blog - https://www.prodetecting.com/blog/ccaw
Dirt coin dig videos - https://www.youtube.com/@prodetecting
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Love it! Once you have some VB skills, it becomes your go-to hammer in search of proverbial nails. Looks like a really robust tool, I can appreciate how long it took to code and evolve it.
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One day I'll get around to porting it over to C-Sharp - then maybe make it available to others. Access is bloatware and just not all that scalable.
I swing a metal detector and have a knack for finding dirty old coins.
Dirt coin restoration projects - https://www.prodetecting.com/restorations
Dirt coin restoration blog - https://www.prodetecting.com/blog/ccaw
Dirt coin dig videos - https://www.youtube.com/@prodetecting
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DOCC,

That's exactly what I planned on doing. I'm a VBA hobbyist but I keep dragging my feet. It's a deep rabbit hole thing for me. One of my former hobbies was tabletop sports games. I once spent 10 years working on an automated scoresheet generator with real life lineups, that turned into a stat compiler, etc. I also entered charts from various games and made a dice roller and it would give me the results of each play. It had all sorts of reports too. I only stopped developing it when Microsoft killed their calendar control and that was that.
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One of my former hobbies was tabletop sports games. I once spent 10 years working on an automated scoresheet generator...
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I only stopped developing it when Microsoft killed their calendar control and that was that.
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