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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Norfolk, post: 389518, member: 15061&quot;]I have used Excel but have found it too clunky and inadequate - sorting and arranging is not very user-friendly.&nbsp; I still use Lotus Approach, which is a sort of relational database, and found it easy to learn.&nbsp; However, IBM are not continuing it.&nbsp; I therefore use Access, which is enormously flexible.&nbsp; I can not only track what I&#039;ve got, but who sold it to me, what else was in a lot, what the provenance of an item was, how much I have spent per country, what the value is (updating it automatically by formulae if I want to), what an item looks like, what the legend is (Access 2007 uses rich text, and so any character - Chinese, Thai, whatever - can be typed into an appopriate field), date, condition (e.g. I can run a report which tells me how many Unc. coins I have, who sold them to me, for how much, etc) and so on.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In fact, I&#039;ve become a bit of an Access junkie, and enjoy fiddling around with a database and making it run even better.&nbsp; However, there has been a huge investment of time, and so if you&#039;re not the patient type this is not for you.&nbsp; However if you want the best there is (and stand-alone copies are not that expensive), go for Access 2007.&nbsp; You can even run it on the latest Macs as well as PCs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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