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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 489643, member: 13650&quot;]I agree.&nbsp; I&#039;ve put together a basic, custom spreadsheet with excel with around 12 sheets to sort through at the bottom.&nbsp; Each sheet is a type of coin (silver dollars, half dollars, state quarters, quarters, commems..etc..)</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; If I get a new Morgan, I just go in, click on the silver dollars sheet and the first page on that sheet is for Morgans.&nbsp; Date,MM, grading co.(if applicable), grade/approx. grade, qty.,purch. date, purch. price, book value, and then a space for a brief comment at the end.&nbsp; Usually, who or where I got it from.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; They&#039;re also set up so that&nbsp; any sheet/page with silver coins, the quantity automatically is added to a total and the bullion weight is calc&#039;d automatically and totaled on each page as coins are added to the quantity columns.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I take pics of stuff like my commemoratives and shrink them down to about 1x1 squares.&nbsp;&nbsp; If, I ever want to look at one, I can just grab on the corner and stretch it out full screen.&nbsp; Then I can just click undo and it goes back to the size I had it.&nbsp;&nbsp; This allows me to get a lot on a page.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I only photograph the nicer stuff.&nbsp; If I buy a roll of silver dimes, I&#039;ll just enter in the quantity on the dimes sheet with a beginning and ending date for them.&nbsp;&nbsp; And price paid.&nbsp; &nbsp; Trying to photograph everything would be too much.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s so easy to do once you get everything cataloged.&nbsp; I&#039;m glad I started early.&nbsp; I know some people put it off because their collections are so extensive now that they don&#039;t know where to start and just don&#039;t want to do it now.&nbsp; Others have stuff coming in and going out so much, it isn&#039;t worth it to catalog.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;I think it&#039;s worth it for me and I enjoy keeping track.&nbsp; It will be interesting to look at down the road.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I also keep this backed up on an external hard drive that I update once in a while.&nbsp; If my computer crashes, I&#039;ve still got it all.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Edit:&nbsp; I should also add that it&#039;s great having the info available when going to a show.&nbsp; If I&#039;m headed to a show, I&#039;ll go to the half dollars sheet, page 4.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ll print only page 4 and it&#039;s a list of Franklins that I have or don&#039;t have.&nbsp; Any date that I have a MS one for which are in my IS album, I have an asterick (*) by the date.&nbsp; Circulated ones don&#039;t have an (*).&nbsp; And of course the ones I don&#039;t have just have the date, MM and the rest of the fields are blank.&nbsp;&nbsp; A perfect, instant list with grid lines, always available.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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