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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 61857, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Organize! Compare!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>What do you do NOW?&nbsp; Do you have ANY organization??&nbsp; File cards? Notebooks? Anything??&nbsp; If you do not organize your collection now, you may find yourself making one or more false starts before you find the system that works best for you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Start with an Excel spreadsheet.&nbsp; You will probably construct a few of them before you get it the way you like it.&nbsp; I used Word.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I recommend getting all the demos (often free, otherwise cheap) and USING them until you know how you want to do things.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also recommend against downloads.&nbsp; Downloading demos for the articles I wrote, one of them had a virus that infected our network server.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In this day and age, there is no package that should do that.&nbsp; Something was not set right on your computer, in the operating system, or whatever.&nbsp; I did not have that problem.&nbsp; However, I did have similar problems with other packages depending on which version of Windows I was using.&nbsp; I tested all of them on Windows 95 and Windows 2000 -- to check for downward compatibility -- and also on either Windows NT Server or Windows XP.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Hard to use&quot; is the one that gets everyone.&nbsp; Interface design depends on many factors.&nbsp; Basically, &quot;someone&quot; decides what will work &quot;best&quot; for &quot;most&quot; people -- in other words what works best for <u>himself</u>.&nbsp; There is some effort toward &quot;software anthropology&quot; but the one of the basic reasons to try before you buy is that these issues are very subjective.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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