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<p>[QUOTE="Bing, post: 2657410, member: 44132"]I use Excel spreadsheet and would be glad to send a sample to anyone who might like to set up something similar. My problem with a word document comes when you are trying to keep things in chronological order. Inserting into the middle of a word document could throw off the remainder of the document. Or so that is what I found.</p><p>As an example [USER=76086]@Ken Dorney[/USER], if I use your format and wanted to insert a like Danubian Celt, it would push only part the next entry into the next page. Then The remaining pages have to be adjusted to keep each entry on the same page. Am I making any sense?</p><p>I currently have 742 entries in my catalog. Way too many to just put two or three per page. With a spreadsheet, I can search for just about any parameter and have it at my fingertips in moments.</p><p>I also keep photos with each entry so that is not a problem either.</p><p>As it stands, I have the following columns: Description; Date; Mint; Image; Date Acquired; Acquisition Source; Notes; Coin Location (Book and page numbers); and cost.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bing, post: 2657410, member: 44132"]I use Excel spreadsheet and would be glad to send a sample to anyone who might like to set up something similar. My problem with a word document comes when you are trying to keep things in chronological order. Inserting into the middle of a word document could throw off the remainder of the document. Or so that is what I found. As an example [USER=76086]@Ken Dorney[/USER], if I use your format and wanted to insert a like Danubian Celt, it would push only part the next entry into the next page. Then The remaining pages have to be adjusted to keep each entry on the same page. Am I making any sense? I currently have 742 entries in my catalog. Way too many to just put two or three per page. With a spreadsheet, I can search for just about any parameter and have it at my fingertips in moments. I also keep photos with each entry so that is not a problem either. As it stands, I have the following columns: Description; Date; Mint; Image; Date Acquired; Acquisition Source; Notes; Coin Location (Book and page numbers); and cost.[/QUOTE]
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