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Invisible wrote:
> Perhaps. I can well imagine people being too stupid to work out how to
> use a proper database product...
Remember at the time that a "proper" database product cost roughly $100K per
seat.
You don't need a "proper" database product to keep your to-do list or your
org chart.
>>> that only one person can edit it at a time.
>>
>> Actually, I think nowadays you can set it up for multiple edits and
>> it'll coordinate.
>
> I've never seen that.
It was really trivial in the menus. I think it's something around
tools->Shared Workbook. One of the things under Tools should do it.
> I spent six months watching a group of three people in an office. They
> had an Access database, which everybody had constantly open all day. So
> clearly that's not the case.
Well, this *was* years ago. More than a decade, probably.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"How did he die?" "He got shot in the hand."
"That was fatal?"
"He was holding a live grenade at the time."
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