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<blockquote data-quote="Chris Davis" data-source="post: 15304" data-attributes="member: 137"><p>Re: Database software/applications?</p><p></p><p>All that on one single Word document? That might become too large I would think. It might even create performance problems. The easiest fix might be to break it out into many different Word documents. Then give them all useful names. Store all of them in the same directory, then use Windows or Mac OS to search the content of your directory for files that contain certain key words. Only the documents containing relevant data would show up in your searches. That is, if you want to just keep it on your PC for now.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Filemaker can help you to accomplish essentially the same thing. Unless you are tallying up numbers or doing some sort of data tabulation, then I don't see an obvious benefit to migrating everything to a database.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I would hesitate to migrate it to anything too ''proprietary'' that might create software compatibility or retrieval problems down the line. Keep it simple...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I would be a proponent of developing an online Wiki too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chris Davis, post: 15304, member: 137"] Re: Database software/applications? All that on one single Word document? That might become too large I would think. It might even create performance problems. The easiest fix might be to break it out into many different Word documents. Then give them all useful names. Store all of them in the same directory, then use Windows or Mac OS to search the content of your directory for files that contain certain key words. Only the documents containing relevant data would show up in your searches. That is, if you want to just keep it on your PC for now. Filemaker can help you to accomplish essentially the same thing. Unless you are tallying up numbers or doing some sort of data tabulation, then I don't see an obvious benefit to migrating everything to a database. I would hesitate to migrate it to anything too ''proprietary'' that might create software compatibility or retrieval problems down the line. Keep it simple... I would be a proponent of developing an online Wiki too. [/QUOTE]
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