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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