Excel Spreadsheet Help

Hi Pertinax, I would like to see the database, thank you. I believe that you are correct about personalizing a database, however I am not really sure how or where to start. Hopefully your base will provide me with some guidance.
On a separate note, where are you in the UK? I will be in London on business starting next month for 6 months.

Thanks,

Lee

I enabled email. I appreciate you sending the database. I will certainly check out the two groups upon my arrival.

i use this simple excel spreadsheet

http://www.aussie-coins.com/links.htm

its for Australian coins but it would not be hard to change it to whatever you want

Here is an intesting thing. A long time ago I too asked about Excel being old and not a fantastic computer person. There was a simple solution. Many book stores have books on Excel. Many computer stores have books on Excel. Some are like those you hear about that say Excel for dummies. I didn't buy that one but did get a spiral bound, simplified version on how to use Excel. Never did read a lot of all the things it can do, I just wanted to make a spredsheet for coins.
All you really need to do is open it up. Type in headings for what you want. To make colums wider, you just go to the top of the column and drag the line you want to the left.
After a while, once you get those columns the way you want, just go down a line and add STUFF to each column.
The really, IMPORTANT thing to always remember is to save your work to a file somewhere in your computer. You wouldn't believe how many times I've forgot to do that and lost hours of work. Once closed and not saved, POOF, gone by-by. To make line spacing larger, use your mouse to highlight the line number at the farthest lert. Then go to the to for format, then row, then a box will appear for size. I suggest you put 15 in there. I like large letters and numbers so need the room.
As you play around with Excel, just pop in here and ask.

I created my own sheet and just made columns for year and mint to catalog what I own, then made another one for condition based on denomination. I found it was cheaper than paying for a program, and I could put whatever I wanted in the data fields. BUT I am willing to look for a better option if I find one.