Author Topic: Creating Tables in Office, open office etc (Read 214 times)

DREDIOCK · « **on:** February 22, 2007, 02:26:47 PM »

Im looking to create a table but unsure on exactly how to go about getting exactly what I want

I want the discriptions up to as follows seperated by vertical lines beween each heading with horizontal lines separating each (rows and collumns) creating large boxes which can be written into by hand

Example

If a house is to be painted I want the table to look something like this

Room l Ceiling l Walls l Trim l Other

Sandy's l White l Blue lRed lC- Green

ST/336 lST/153 lST/201 lST/679 lST/277

Davids Color Color Color Etc

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #1 on:** February 22, 2007, 02:27:49 PM »

Really poor job and not exactly what im looking for. but hopefully someone here gets what Im getting at

texasmom · « **Reply #2 on:** February 22, 2007, 02:59:45 PM »

PM me your email address. I've got tons of tables already built for that. looking for Excel? Word?

Eagler · « **Reply #3 on:** February 22, 2007, 03:06:47 PM »

use access or excel

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #4 on:** February 22, 2007, 03:23:13 PM »

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Originally posted by Eagler
use access or excel

Yea I figured one of the two would do it.
the question is How to do it the way I want to do it

Of all the things I can do. Working with those types of programs isnt one of them without great frustration

Its one of the reasons I still do all my business book keeping and other business related items by hand

Eagler · « **Reply #5 on:** February 22, 2007, 05:00:04 PM »

excel is easier than access for just a workbook to store your info.
If you want to be able to query the data, you'll need a database and then you'd have to use access. I can send you a basic excel workbook. just pm me an email address.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #6 on:** February 23, 2007, 07:31:15 AM »

Thanks a ton to both of you
I really appreciate it.
Wasnt exactly what I was looking for

BUT, it got me to thinking and I think I have figured it out

As my mother likes to say.

"If you just looked a little farther then the end of your nose. You might find what you are looking for"

Such as clicking on the "Table" icon LOL

Thanks anyway

Reschke · « **Reply #7 on:** February 23, 2007, 09:03:41 AM »

DO NOT create a living breathing document with tables in Access. We have some people in our "organization" who believe that Access is the only way to work. Me personally if we could toss M$ Office in the bin I would love it but we can't and even though I can't stand the high dollar cost of the programs I still like dealing with Excel for all tables and spreadsheets and even our customer database over Access.