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The_Duke,
I am a new member to this forum and I am having difficulty figuring all of this out. could you please send me the templates you mentioned for access and excel?
Actually if you know the least bit of how to use Excel, making your own layout is just to easy. And if you start out with a really basic format or layout, in the far future you would probably still be using that one. Like I mentioned before. After about 40 or 50 years most of the information is irrilivant. Once nice thing about this post is it made me stop and think what I've been doing myself. I print out all my info so I can easily just flip open a binder for my info. To keep all in order I've labled each type of classification with a number. That is a 100 to 110 for Cent info, 200 to 210 for
Twenty Cent Pieces and up from there.
What I finally stopped to think about was how thick this 3 ringed binder has become. Thinking of all on this post made me realize to continue I should shorten even more by printing on both sides of a piece of paper. Sounds dumb that I didn't do this in the past but that's old age for you.
And remember as you make a spreadsheet and your collection grows, how much will you want to record if you have many thousands of coins?