Computer Question...

[olde_fashioned]

I have a question for the technologically astute among you. My computer came with Microsoft Works. Does that include Microsoft Word, or not? And if it doesn't, would I be able to open a Word attachment, and could another person with Word be able to view an attached Works file with their Word software? What exactly is the difference between Word and Works?

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[florentinescot.livejournal.com]

As a flat file DB you can't beat it. It's better than Excel or Quattro Pro because you're only dealing with the specific columns that you need instead of all this other junk off to the right. The search facilities are better for DB stuff than Excel/QP -- and the rows autosize themselves! Access for a flat file isn't as good -- each record is the same size as all the other records. If *this* record needs to be 3 lines high coz it's got lots of stuff in it, Works will do that -- Access makes *all* the records 3 lines high (once you finally figure out how to make Access wrap text in a record so it doesn't have to be a gazillion characters long.

Now, if you're linking 2 DB tables, that's a different can of worms entirely.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, I'm afraid that went way over my head, lol!! ;-P I'll just take your word for it. :-)

[florentinescot.livejournal.com]

A "flat-file db" is what you build if you use Excel to maintain database.