Because of tools and vision and perceived time constraints. Most people can set up a spreadsheet with less than an hour's experience. A database often takes more. Many software projects are conceived as short lived quick and dirty paths to a solution. Many are not conceived as a "system" that will live for years. They do become a system that lives for years, but that is not how they are conceived. James S. Huggins writing you from Dallas, recovering from (1) my recent stroke, (2) from rolling my car on Interstate 45 south of Huntsville, Texas but mostly (3) from the loss of Spot, my pet cat of 10 years .... ... http://JSH.us/spot ... ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu at the top. This will allow you to unsubscribe your email address or change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to share files with the group, you must join our Yahoo sister group. This group will not allow for posting of emails, but will allow you to join and share problem files, templates, etc.: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MicrosoftOffice . This group is for FILE SHARING ONLY. If you are using Outlook and you see a lot of unnecessary code in your email messages, read these instructions that explain why and how to fix it: http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v28/greg28.htm *************************************************************