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Re: “But, I have seen some truly complicated spreadsheet 'applications' doing some sophisticated computations.”
Of course. Anything *can* turn complex. I trust you'll agree that most of the time, Excel and Word are used for very simple things. But Access projects are never simple. In fact, that word "project" says a lot. Access is for PROJECTS and only for projects. It isn't used when the boss calls you up and says he's got some new need and has to have it that same morning. Word and Excel *can* be used in the project sense but are used far more frequently for writing memos and adding up some numbers... or maybe generating a chart. Beyond that is less common and out of the norm (except by techies, of course, who may ONLY do that kind of thing.).

Do you think anyone has ever brought up a fresh installation of Access and had it doing something useful in less than HOURS? How about Word? I'd say "Yes, in about 2 minutes." Excel? "Maybe twenty."

There's a reason Microsoft removed Access from the home version of Office. Almost nobody was using it. Too hard.








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Re: Free Download of New Edition of Designing with Libre Office
By: Zimbler0
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Tue, 22 Nov 22 2:33 AM
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Decomposed > Also, if you think learning a database is comparable in difficulty to learning Excel or Word, think again. Access was *MUCH* harder.


Access . . . With the help of a 'how - to' book is really not that difficult. To make a simple un-complicated data base. A Table to store data, queries to fetch data back out, Forms to display the data or Reports to print the data out.

Excel - Spreadsheets. Again, for simple applications not that difficult. But, I have seen some truly complicated spreadsheet 'applications' doing some sophisticated computations. And I'm pretty sure Visual Basic can be incorporated into an Excel spreadsheet - opening a whole new universe of strange, weird, wonderful and difficult things.

But, yeah, Access is more difficult than Excel.

I'll say this for Microsoft. Their 'Sequel Server' database stuff is incredibly powerful. And the fact that Access can be used as a front end into it only adds to the power and sophistication.

Zim.


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