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Help! I need to know which office products I need. I'm clueless!
Greetings,
I am doing research for my wife. She needs to get MS Office programs that will allow her to compile a database of client information (is this where she would use Access?) and a product, like Word I assume, that will allow her to compose letters or other mail postcards, flyers, etc. to clients. These documents need to be filled in by means of a mail merge (so she says) to fill in the clients name, addresses, etc. Can anyone tell me which products I need to get her? None of this office/business related stuff makes any sense to me. Graphics, multi-track recording and such I can do anything, not so much with the business stuff. So . . . I really need some help if possible. Thank you very much in advance for your assistance. Mark R. |
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Help! I need to know which office products I need. I'm clueless!
Yes, you are on right track. MS Office package that offers Word, Excel,
Access, Powerpoint (or some other provider with similar suite, although can't think of alternate) is appropriate. Word will accommodate some simple publication documents but if want to get heavy into pamphlets/brochures/newsletters need something like Publisher. Since this is an integrated suite of software the elements can work cooperatively, might require some programming with VBA (which is included with each element) to accomplish some more complex interactions. kingmarki123 wrote: Greetings, I am doing research for my wife. She needs to get MS Office programs that will allow her to compile a database of client information (is this where she would use Access?) and a product, like Word I assume, that will allow her to compose letters or other mail postcards, flyers, etc. to clients. These documents need to be filled in by means of a mail merge (so she says) to fill in the clients name, addresses, etc. Can anyone tell me which products I need to get her? None of this office/business related stuff makes any sense to me. Graphics, multi-track recording and such I can do anything, not so much with the business stuff. So . . . I really need some help if possible. Thank you very much in advance for your assistance. Mark R. -- Message posted via http://www.accessmonster.com |
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Help! I need to know which office products I need. I'm clueless!
Microsoft Office 2007 Professional is a good choice for those unfamiliar
with the Office programs. It contains all the programs she'll need to accomplish her goals. If she has some experience with Office products, she may prefer using Office Professional 2003 because it will be more familiar to her. -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP http://www.datastrat.com http://www.mvps.org/access http://www.accessmvp.com "kingmarki123" wrote in message ... Greetings, I am doing research for my wife. She needs to get MS Office programs that will allow her to compile a database of client information (is this where she would use Access?) and a product, like Word I assume, that will allow her to compose letters or other mail postcards, flyers, etc. to clients. These documents need to be filled in by means of a mail merge (so she says) to fill in the clients name, addresses, etc. Can anyone tell me which products I need to get her? None of this office/business related stuff makes any sense to me. Graphics, multi-track recording and such I can do anything, not so much with the business stuff. So . . . I really need some help if possible. Thank you very much in advance for your assistance. Mark R. |
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Help! I need to know which office products I need. I'm clueless!
Mark:
MS Office Professional, which includes Access, would give your wife a full range of applications for this. Using Access to store her client data would not only enable here to use the data as the source for mail merges, but also for creating other databases for managing her business. While there are templates available for many types of business databases customizing these or developing databases specific to her own requirements will involve learning how to design a relational database with Access. Access is at the end of the day a development environment and not so readily usable 'out of the box' as Word or Excel for instance. Help is available here of course. If your wife is not interested in developing databases for other business uses beyond compiling a client list for mail merge purposes then MS Outlook can be used for this without using Access. But the price differential (in the UK at least) between the MS Office Small Business Edition and MS Office Professional is relatively small and the inclusion of Access in the latter would give her the potential for developing more ambitious database applications for her business even if she is presently only looking towards mail merging. Even if restricted to the latter, the use of Access gives scope for automating mail merges and other Access to Word automation operations on the basis of specific criteria from within an Access database itself. BTW I see that you've included your email addresses in your signature. A word of warning on this; recognizable email addresses in a public newsgroup like this can be harvested by automated software leading to your getting spam. If you do give an email address then 'munge' it e.g. mark_c_reganATyahooDOTcom. Even then you should consider the possible consequences. There are people who frequent newsgroups offering their services 'at a reasonable cost' to inexperienced users. Their abilities are usually open to question and they are immediately shot down by other experienced people here for abusing the newsgroup. As you have given your addresses you might find that you are contacted directly by such people. If so be very wary of them. Experienced and reputable database developers do not need to resort to underhand tactics to get work. Ken Sheridan Stafford, England kingmarki123 wrote: Greetings, I am doing research for my wife. She needs to get MS Office programs that will allow her to compile a database of client information (is this where she would use Access?) and a product, like Word I assume, that will allow her to compose letters or other mail postcards, flyers, etc. to clients. These documents need to be filled in by means of a mail merge (so she says) to fill in the clients name, addresses, etc. Can anyone tell me which products I need to get her? None of this office/business related stuff makes any sense to me. Graphics, multi-track recording and such I can do anything, not so much with the business stuff. So . . . I really need some help if possible. Thank you very much in advance for your assistance. Mark R. -- Message posted via AccessMonster.com http://www.accessmonster.com/Uwe/For...arted/200908/1 |
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