database- I have been looking for a database?
I am trying to find the best way or program and how to… in making a name database that may also convert into address lables. Could anyone give me ideas or a good program to buy to do this for mass mailings thanks
If you are trying to do this for yourself, the easiest product to learn is MS Access (http://www.microsoft.com/office ) Access will also link up with Word easier than any other program to do mail merges and letter templates.
There is a free, open-source version of Access from OpenOffice called Base. http://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html OpenOffice is generally inferior to Microsoft Office (you get what you pay for), especially with regard to the user interface and ease of use, but it saves in a nice format and it is free.
If you are talking for more like a product that you want to reuse or distribute, you should probably look into using SQL Express (also known as the SQL Desktop Engine) which is a free, compact version of Microsoft SQL (enterprise-grade database server) designed to run in the background on regular desktop computers, to be used by applications that need a database.
microsoft access is the best i have seen you can program it to either do names or address
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If you are trying to do this for yourself, the easiest product to learn is MS Access (http://www.microsoft.com/office ) Access will also link up with Word easier than any other program to do mail merges and letter templates.
There is a free, open-source version of Access from OpenOffice called Base. http://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html OpenOffice is generally inferior to Microsoft Office (you get what you pay for), especially with regard to the user interface and ease of use, but it saves in a nice format and it is free.
If you are talking for more like a product that you want to reuse or distribute, you should probably look into using SQL Express (also known as the SQL Desktop Engine) which is a free, compact version of Microsoft SQL (enterprise-grade database server) designed to run in the background on regular desktop computers, to be used by applications that need a database.
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For a simple way to keep a names list that can be readily converted to labels you could keep the list in an Excel spreadsheet and then do a mail merge into word to print them. Of course if you want a fairly user friendly and simple db try Microsoft Access. While it is not inexpensive it is quite versatile. If you are using a linux platform there are many open source database programs.
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