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From: Von Fourche on 21 Apr 2008 17:29 This Sunday at services I was shocked and delighted to learn that my Bishop and church wants to me work with Disaster Preparedness. I will get more information on this on Tuesday but from what I know - members of my ward filled out a survey of the equipment they have that could be used in a natuarl disaster. I'm suppose to take those names and put them in a spread so there will be a record of them. I guess you could say I'm the keeper of the records. For instance - if John Doe has a generator. I would put down John Doe - Generator -or something like that. What I want to know is - what spreadsheet should I use? My Bishop said Excel or something. He did not mention which one. I suppose any that works will be good. What I would like is one that is easy to use, I can burn to cd, easy for me to share with others on cd, free or cheap, maybe a little customizable. Any suggestions? Thanks!
From: Colin Wilson on 21 Apr 2008 17:43 > I'm suppose to take those names and put them in a spread so there will be > a record of them. I guess you could say I'm the keeper of the records. > For instance - if John Doe has a generator. I would put down John Doe - > Generator -or something like that. > What I want to know is - what spreadsheet should I use? My Bishop said > Excel or something. He did not mention which one. I suppose any that > works will be good. > What I would like is one that is easy to use, I can burn to cd, easy for > me to share with others on cd, free or cheap, maybe a little customizable. > Any suggestions? As far as free goes, OpenOffice.org - perfectly free and legal to distribute... It should be relatively interoperable (although it doesn't use VB), and can export the data to other common formats - the ultimate for portability would probably be CSV, as it's plain text and could be interpreted without installing the program if required. Not sure whether it'd be possible to do in a portable manner, but if you could keep a list of equipment in one range of cells, and be able to select from a drop-down against each person it might ease data input... One final thought - if you're in the UK, this might well fall under the terms of the Data Protection Act and require registration with the Information Commissioner.
From: RnR on 21 Apr 2008 18:39 On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:29:26 -0400, "Von Fourche" <khonakong(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > This Sunday at services I was shocked and delighted to learn that my Bishop >and church wants to me work with Disaster Preparedness. I will get more >information on this on Tuesday but from what I know - members of my ward >filled out a survey of the equipment they have that could be used in a >natuarl disaster. > > I'm suppose to take those names and put them in a spread so there will be >a record of them. I guess you could say I'm the keeper of the records. >For instance - if John Doe has a generator. I would put down John Doe - >Generator -or something like that. > > What I want to know is - what spreadsheet should I use? My Bishop said >Excel or something. He did not mention which one. I suppose any that >works will be good. > > What I would like is one that is easy to use, I can burn to cd, easy for >me to share with others on cd, free or cheap, maybe a little customizable. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks! > > Excel is pretty popular so my first guess is to try Excel but more important is what OS's will this spreadsheet need to run on?
From: Von Fourche on 21 Apr 2008 18:47 "RnR" <rnrtexas(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:cp5q04hmoh5uvbvg3tua3i9qm94cakdvah(a)4ax.com... > On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:29:26 -0400, "Von Fourche" > <khonakong(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> This Sunday at services I was shocked and delighted to learn that my >> Bishop >>and church wants to me work with Disaster Preparedness. I will get more >>information on this on Tuesday but from what I know - members of my ward >>filled out a survey of the equipment they have that could be used in a >>natuarl disaster. >> >> I'm suppose to take those names and put them in a spread so there will be >>a record of them. I guess you could say I'm the keeper of the records. >>For instance - if John Doe has a generator. I would put down John Doe - >>Generator -or something like that. >> >> What I want to know is - what spreadsheet should I use? My Bishop said >>Excel or something. He did not mention which one. I suppose any that >>works will be good. >> >> What I would like is one that is easy to use, I can burn to cd, easy for >>me to share with others on cd, free or cheap, maybe a little customizable. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> Thanks! >> >> > > Excel is pretty popular so my first guess is to try Excel but more > important is what OS's will this spreadsheet need to run on? As far as I know, my compute (XP). I assume the few others I want to share this info with run XP. When I go to Amazon.com I see Excel sold for over $100.00 Is it that expensive?
From: Colin Wilson on 21 Apr 2008 19:28
> When I go to Amazon.com I see Excel sold for over $100.00 > Is it that expensive? OpenOffice.org is absolutely, 100% free, and therefore probably a whole lot friendlier to the church and poor parisioners. If the bishop hears how much this would save him across the board, you might have a new best friend ! It will happily import and save as an Excel file as long as you're not using VB to do funky programming behind the scenes. |