I have all of my data files in Excel -- weight and balance, balance graph,
times, and all of that. What I want is something that will let me do the
verbiage part along with some simple time and such entries. I'm moving from
an ink logbook to a typed one. Ink signatures, of course, but typed
verbiage.

Now that I think more about it, that is what Word tables are for. I can
make it look JUST like a logbook and simply merge the right hand columns
into one. Since I am keeping times elsewhere in equation format in Excel, I
could probably crosslink those into the appropriate place by "paste special"
into Word as a link.

"search" is a simple CTRL-F for the whole logbook.

Sheesh, the simple solutions are always the ones you don't think of first.

Jim





"Blanche" wrote in message
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I use Excel. Sort on any column, does what I need, which is
being able to search for a specific word or phrase when I
need to determine if/when something was done, e.g. ADs.