I want to create a personal journal database for daily entries. I thought MS
Access would be good.

Anyone done it and have a template?

This would be a simple flat table that has the fields that you want. (e.g.
date, content. with content being a memo field. ). You could design this
in 1 minute, or else spend several hours searching for and adapting a
template.






"Cootharaba" wrote:

> I want to create a personal journal database for daily entries. I thought MS
> Access would be good.
>
> Anyone done it and have a template?
>
>

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:00:01 -0700, Cootharaba
<Cootharaba@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I want to create a personal journal database for daily entries. I thought MS
>Access would be good.
>
>Anyone done it and have a template?
>

If you have Access, you have Outlook... and you can type Ctrl-J to open its
reasonably well-featured Journal. (It is very much business-oriented but you
can ignore the features you don't want).

If you want to do it in Access, Fred's right - just do it. Adapting a template
will be much harder even if you find one.
--

John W. Vinson [MVP]

"John W. Vinson" <jvinson@STOP_SPAM.WysardOfInfo.com> wrote in message
news:4a9ba41igg8a652mjptjeq0uhvdejjmkpt@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:00:01 -0700, Cootharaba
> <Cootharaba@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>I want to create a personal journal database for daily entries. I thought
>>MS
>>Access would be good.
>>
>>Anyone done it and have a template?
>>
>
> If you have Access, you have Outlook.

Not necessarily, John. Some people buy just Access, as opposed to Office
Professional.

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
http://I.Am/DougSteele
(no e-mails, please!)

Thanks, took your advice and it is up and running.


"Fred" wrote:

> This would be a simple flat table that has the fields that you want. (e.g.
> date, content. with content being a memo field. ). You could design this
> in 1 minute, or else spend several hours searching for and adapting a
> template.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Cootharaba" wrote:
>
> > I want to create a personal journal database for daily entries. I thought MS
> > Access would be good.
> >
> > Anyone done it and have a template?
> >
> >

Being a database program, even Microsoft had to take the rare( for it) step
to create a program that has clear, defined, predictable behavior. Unlike
other Microsoft products, with Access, usually whatever worked yesterday
still works today, and whatever your were doing yesterday you can still do
today, and other unrelated things don't interfere with it's functionality.

Outlook is a more typical Microsoft product regarding the above. I'd
rather stick needles into my eyeballs than switch my journal from Access to
Outlook.






"Douglas J. Steele" wrote:

> "John W. Vinson" <jvinson@STOP_SPAM.WysardOfInfo.com> wrote in message
> news:4a9ba41igg8a652mjptjeq0uhvdejjmkpt@4ax.com...
> > On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:00:01 -0700, Cootharaba
> > <Cootharaba@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> >>I want to create a personal journal database for daily entries. I thought
> >>MS
> >>Access would be good.
> >>
> >>Anyone done it and have a template?
> >>
> >
> > If you have Access, you have Outlook.
>
> Not necessarily, John. Some people buy just Access, as opposed to Office
> Professional.
>
> --
> Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
> http://I.Am/DougSteele
> (no e-mails, please!)
>
>
>
>