[BBLISA] Know any (real) MS Excel experts?

[Sean OMeara]

Isn't this what "MS Access" is for?

If I recall correctly, Excel should have built in ODBC-fu for letting
spreadsheet users directly manipulate the contents of a database.

I'm not sure how portable the spreadsheet is after that, but if it's
already at 50 megs, chances are they're not exactly sending it to
people as an outook attachment anyway.

-s

(PS, I haven't made a spreadsheet since 1998 so I have no idea what
I'm talking about)


On 28 Mar 2008 11:53:41 -0400, Daniel Hagerty <hag at linnaean.org> wrote:
> Edward Ned Harvey <bblisa2 at nedharvey.com> writes:
>
>  > Hey, I'm looking for a rare breed of human being.  The problem is simple to
>  > describe - I know a location where they have a very important huge
>  > spreadsheet.  Something like 50 megs, and when they open it up, it might
>  > take 45 minutes to open.
>
>     I'm also no excel expert, but the scale of data you're talking
>  about is well into "wrong tool for the job" territory.  Databases are
>  actually designed to do this; excel isn't.
>
>
>
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