| You've reached EOF. This book can't offer you any more advice about using the Excel platform to manage your data. I can hope, though, that you've found the information useful. I've done a core dump here, including in this book everything I've found valuable about using Excel, VBA, DAO, ADO, Access databases, and Access projects to keep track of data. Excel is a very powerful application, but 'twas not always thus. There was a time when Excel was best thought of as the JV version of 1-2-3. Believe it or not, there was a time that Microsoft was criticized in the personal computer media for not offering a spreadsheet application that supported more than one worksheet per file. But Microsoft kept improving what had once been known as MultiPlan. Excel in 2004 is the gold standard. You can tell because new releases have fewer and fewer enhancements of any real value. Access isn't yet there. Nor is SQL Server. As this book is written, Microsoft's attention is engaged in patching the holes in its operating systems, and devoting relatively little attention to its end user applications. But every release of Access and SQL Server has enhanced their capabilities, and there's every reason to believe that they will follow the path established by Excel. 'Nuff said. If you keep on using Excel to analyze your data, and truly relational database management systems to store and retrieve it, it will pay off. | 