[Boatanchors] on topic, looking for software

WA5CAB at cs.com WA5CAB at cs.com
Thu Jan 31 03:47:44 EST 2008


Further comments.  Excel might be OK if you only have a few hundred BA's.  
And are only interested in a simple list of what you have.  When your collection 
gets into the thousands and you need to relate usage of various items over 
many sets, forget it.

In a message dated 1/30/2008 11:04:39 PM Central Standard Time, jfor at quik.com 
writes: 
> The functions for a BA inventory are so simple, even Excel can do it. You 
> can format
> cells as Date, Number, Text, or Currency. You can sort Text or do arithmetic 
> on cells
> or sort by dates. Sorting can be done in tiers (e.g.:  Maker, then  Model 
> Number, then
> Serial Number). You can do similar sorts on Word Tables.
> 

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