I say YES. I lean more toward using Excel but am interested in learning Access and this discussion helped a lot in seeing the differences and similarities in both. Linda F. Johnson wrote: >OK...let's take a vote....who thinks these kinds of discussions should be >held here and who doesn't? > -- Tom Demma KD7MSM Support Systems Analyst & Systems Administrator Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics University of Arizona (520)621-6578 (520)621-2550 fax tdemma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx tdemma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "I am a student of life" ************************************************************* 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, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************