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Data management. What people use?
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 9:47 am
by Dili
An now something completely diferent!
I am compiling data for my internal editing: Weapons data, Units, updates sequences and that hard data converted to WITP data fields . Since i am far from happy with my spreadsheets(i use a small freeware program called GS-Calc6.0) i would like to know what people use to have all data accessible and easily shown and also other tips and tricks that can remember.
RE: Data management. What people use?
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 12:40 pm
by treespider
ORIGINAL: Dili
An now something completely diferent!
I am compiling data for my internal editing: Weapons data, Units, updates sequences and that hard data converted to WITP data fields . Since i am far from happy with my spreadsheets(i use a small freeware program called GS-Calc6.0) i would like to know what people use to have all data accessible and easily shown and also other tips and tricks that can remember.
I use Witpload to extract the info...then massage it in Excel...First I use auto filter then I split and freeze the worksheet so that when I scroll I can still see the column headers and the slot and unit designations. Then if I want to pull up a particular device or TO&E or class I use the dropdown on the autofiltered colums...
RE: Data management. What people use?
Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 2:48 am
by Reg
If you want a more full featured freeware spreadsheet program, you might try Calc from the Open Office Suite available from
http://www.openoffice.org/. (Watch out this package is big - though my ISP holds a mirror in their local download area).
As Treespider says, you just load it with WITPLoad available from Spookies site.
Best of luck.
RE: Data management. What people use?
Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 6:42 am
by Dili
Thanks all that info will be usefull but i am afraid i wasnt clear enough, my question is handling the researched data: OOBs, TOEs, weapons systems, changes with time, updates etc and eventual use of something to integrate all that in a better way than a spreadsheet. For example a database.