MS Access for a personal journal - any templates/help

C

Cootharaba

I want to create a personal journal database for daily entries. I thought MS
Access would be good.

Anyone done it and have a template?
 
F

Fred

This would be a simple flat table that has the fields that you want. (e.g.
date, content. with content being a memo field. ). You could design this
in 1 minute, or else spend several hours searching for and adapting a
template.
 
J

John W. Vinson

I want to create a personal journal database for daily entries. I thought MS
Access would be good.

Anyone done it and have a template?
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If you have Access, you have Outlook... and you can type Ctrl-J to open its
reasonably well-featured Journal. (It is very much business-oriented but you
can ignore the features you don't want).

If you want to do it in Access, Fred's right - just do it. Adapting a template
will be much harder even if you find one.
 
D

Douglas J. Steele

John W. Vinson said:
If you have Access, you have Outlook.
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Not necessarily, John. Some people buy just Access, as opposed to Office
Professional.
 
F

Fred

Being a database program, even Microsoft had to take the rare( for it) step
to create a program that has clear, defined, predictable behavior. Unlike
other Microsoft products, with Access, usually whatever worked yesterday
still works today, and whatever your were doing yesterday you can still do
today, and other unrelated things don't interfere with it's functionality.

Outlook is a more typical Microsoft product regarding the above. I'd
rather stick needles into my eyeballs than switch my journal from Access to
Outlook.
 
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