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(More customer reviews)UPDATE: ARGH! The warning I printed in the last sentence on here came true for me: it deleted all of my information on one of the databases I created. I am glad I had a backup. But I will NOT be using this database program any longer, and will search for a new database program with my fingers crossed.
Amazon will not let me change the number of stars, but if I could, I would give it 2.
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I bought this database, because one aspect of my job entails keeping about 30 different records updated simultaneously and scheduling several different people to do different jobs at different times in different places. We also needed to be able to generate form letters.
The person working here before me had been using Excel, but that was a little overwhelming for me, because I wanted to just see one record at a time, which is not possible with Excel. Also, I wanted something where I could add the 30 or so files each year into the same database for tracking purposes from year-to-year, which the old Excel spreadsheets floating around would have made difficult.
So I did a little research on databases. I didn't need anything fancy; I had used Microsoft Access at another job, and felt that it was not as intuitive and probably had more features than I needed. Plus, in reviews I read of more recent versions of Access, people complained a lot about its stability. For me, I just wanted to find something inexpensive and simple that could keep things organized, give me flexibility to customize the database, and that could merge information into Publisher or Word.
This program fits that bill perfectly!
It is SO user-friendly, that I didn't even need to read the instructions. I just started to play with it, and designed my own custom database, and had a lot of freedom in what it did and what features I chose to use. I think I only consulted the help menu twice.
I could insert numeric, text, notebox, etc, fields into the database. When generating reports or exporting the database to other programs, I can choose only the fields I want to use in the database (or all of them) and export that to a .csv file that merges nicely with Publisher. They built in a lot of flexibility in how to create reports and how to adjust their appearance. It only takes minutes to figure out what to do. It is very intuitive.
I recommend this for people who need a simple database. I am not sure how it would hold up if it has several files in it, however. Also, the user interface is not flashy. There are background images to choose from that are very ugly. But I didn't care about making it look flashy--for me, I just wanted it to be useable.
Just one word of warning: A friend of mine who is a software engineer said that it is important to frequently back-up this type of database program on a separate drive (a flash drive, etc.) because it is prone to having files become corrupt when the database is too large.
This has NOT happened to me, but I am heeding his advice and thought I would pass it on to readers.
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