Access or Excel?

[Hangtown Gal]

I want to make a database for all my software - to include registration
number, date of purchase, where purchased, version, etc.

I've never made my own database and I've been told by some friends to use
Access and others swear by Excel.

Any comments would be appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[Jim Aksel]

If by "my software" you mean "the software on my personal PC" then I would
use Excel, Access would be over kill.

If by "my software" you mean "software for all the people at my company"
then perhaps Access would be more useful. Unless you are having mulitple
users, license compliance, support plans, etc.... I'd operate on the Keep It
Simple Silly (KISS) method.

Things to consider --
How much sofrware are we talking about?
How will you want to sort it? For example, do you have 10 suppliers and 100
pieces of software?

There are some very very robust sorting and filtering capabilities within
Excel. I would recommend sticking with that if you are only talking one PC
or so.
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