Originally Posted by
Killian
Hi Dave,
I just thought I'd chip in with a couple of comments...
I'm not completely clear on how much other data you're storing, but from you're last post it seems to me that you're existing strategy isn't too far off the mark. An individual expense file for each account is a nice safe secure way to manage things - I assume they are liked in some way to the Excel spreadsheet so you can reference them easily? (if not, there's a project!)
At the risk of offending those who hold MS Word close to their hearts, my experience has taught me that the last place you should keep large amounts of frequently used and important data is in one gigantic Word document.
I certainly don't want to discourage you from using your new found abilities - but a large Word document will take a while to open (longer still if if it has fields, etc to update) and take up a lot of resource - it's quicker and more efficient to link to (or even filesearch) and open a small doc than it is to open an very large one especially if you only want to extract one record.