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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Stork, post: 3124170, member: 71642&quot;]Oh, and using boxes I already have, here is an &#039;Ancients&#039; box started.&nbsp; I can line them up anyway I want, they are not held to the tracking number as that is just for the documentation envelopes.&nbsp; So, NGC shaped holders work here. (The small purple box are the coins that are cataloged, but I don&#039;t have the right holder for yet).</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and I set up a table format in a Word document that are the correct size for the label and typed in whatever I wanted, using font sizes as I chose.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]795669[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So, finally, the software.&nbsp; I played around with about 4 different spreadsheets (Numbers, Open Office, Google Sheets, Excel).&nbsp; I am not a power user of these, but I did cobble together some examples.&nbsp; My OC little heart though wanted something a little less spread-sheety with potential for tons of fields.&nbsp; Some of it was just borderline Luddite issues with &#039;how do I keep the photos from not scrolling over and blocking other cells&#039; sort of things.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found three collecting software options that worked with a Mac.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>RECOLLECTOR</b> <a href="http://www.collectingcatalog.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.collectingcatalog.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.collectingcatalog.com/</a> is pretty nice.&nbsp; All the features a collector can want.&nbsp; Modifiable--the developer is actually a map collector.&nbsp; Lots of view options.&nbsp; Uploading format for a webpage.&nbsp; Great support.&nbsp; Very tempting.&nbsp; Almost went with it.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>ExactChange</b>&nbsp; <a href="http://www.exactchange.info/Series_page.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.exactchange.info/Series_page.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.exactchange.info/Series_page.htm</a>&nbsp; is also tempting.&nbsp; More costly.&nbsp; Great support/free upgrades.&nbsp; If all I was doing was world coins I very well might have gone with it.&nbsp; Has license to Krause, and if you have the books uploaded, you can get that information in the program.&nbsp; Pictures if you don&#039;t have them.&nbsp; Customizable.&nbsp; Upload your own.&nbsp; Make checklists.&nbsp; KM numbers, weights/diameters/metal content pre loads.&nbsp; A bit dated looking, but very nice for the world coins.&nbsp; And Krause isn&#039;t exactly error free so there are some limitations there.&nbsp; CAN make stuff for medals/Ancients, but then the extra features there aren&#039;t so useful.</p><p><br /></p><p>I went with <b>Tap Forms.&nbsp; </b><a href="https://www.tapforms.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.tapforms.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.tapforms.com/</a> It&#039;s a Mac exclusive, but I&#039;m sure there are some Windows versions out there.&nbsp; It&#039;s a user friendly personal (or small business) friendly.&nbsp; Super support (I emailed a question on Saturday and had a several email back and forth with support within 10 minutes as the guy walked me through a fix).&nbsp; I didn&#039;t expect any response until Monday! </p><p><br /></p><p>Not only did it look slick and work well for a database newbie (no Filemaker or Office Access level stuff, or coding for me!), but it&#039;s very flexible. </p><p><br /></p><p>Screenshots to follow and I&#039;m sure more experienced people will do better.&nbsp; But a borderline Luddite like set this up pretty quickly. </p><p><br /></p><p>The basic work screen looks like this--views are very modifiable but this is the default view.&nbsp; They call the individual databases forms.&nbsp; The entries are records.&nbsp; It has a default record view too, but there are options there.&nbsp; You can even make a record view that ends up printing labels (I avoided that as too many variables in what fields I&#039;d want on a label...like I said someone could probably fix that too). </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]795676[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>More pictures...can click on the thumbnail to see the photo:[ATTACH=full]795677[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]795678[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]795679[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I blocked the seller&#039;s name/price.&nbsp; I don&#039;t want to know if I overpaid yet!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]795680[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]795681[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Drop down menus are easily done.&nbsp; I added separate fields so I can have a text field for my tracking number, but can sort by &#039;grade&#039;.&nbsp; The program will sequentially number records for me which I use for my tracking.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]795686[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]795687[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have sections to add jpgs (other formats acceptable) of the documents in the envelope, and I can add any other photos too.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are other ways to see the data.&nbsp; Including a spreadsheet view.&nbsp; You can collapse the side bar on the left (I think on the right too), so there is more horizontal viewing if you want.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]795688[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>To be continued...(eventually, I seem to be on uploading hold right now).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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