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Asked by JuliaOsborne in Databases Miscellaneous, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Software
I have a series of contracts with unique numbers. These are associated with a company name, contract name and an abstract (that is too long for a field in Excel) all on a one-to-one basis. Each contract number also has assigned any of a number of preset keywords on a one-to-many basis. (N.B. Each Keyword can also exist in many contracts, but this is not important to the database and is not accounted for). This is all currently handled in Access (my favourite 'pet' application). However, my company doesn't want to run Access corporately and wants me to provide a solution within normal Microsoft Office applications which install with standard version of office (Word, Excel etc). I think I may need to hold the Abstracts against contract number in Word as they are too large for an Excel cell, but I could set up two tables with the one to one data and the one to many keyword data in a couple of Excel tables. I want for the user to somehow select a keyword/s (one or many) and for the system to list all the contract abstracts for contracts with that/those keywords assigned to them. The thing is I don't know how get it to all work together, but assume it must be able to somehow - can the Microsoft applications function like a database please? It's not fair - I had a fabulous system built in Access - forms and everything!!
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