Matt

Like an economist, which answer do you want?...(sorry, inside joke, no
unnecessary disrespect intended to economists)

MS Access is a relational database. If you want to get the best use of it,
you need to feed it well-normalized relational data.

If you've been using Excel, I'm sorry, but you may have to UN-learn some
things before you can get Access to work well.

And then there are the things you need to learn. In fact, I generally point
out at least four separate learning curves you'll want to consider:

1. relational database design -- it all starts with the data
2. Access tricks & tips -- I've been at it for over 15 years, and I'm
still learning...
3. Graphical User Interface -- if it isn't easy to use and understand,
it won't get used
4. Application development -- if you've never built a house, where do
you start?!

Sorry if that's a bit too generic, but you'll find that these newsgroups,
for as long as they continue (soon to be discontinued by Microsoft), work
best if you seek specific answers to specific questions.

Best of luck!

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Access MVP

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"Matt S" wrote in message
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Hello everyone,

I've been wondering this question for a few weeks now. My situation is
that
I generate many "runlogs" from my reactor that have various outputs, such
as
temperatures, sensor data, etc. versus time. Very frequently, I want to
compare one runlog to another. Sometimes I want to average the output of
several runlogs together. I currently have a macro made up in Excel that
analyzes the files, but it really is getting harder to manage all the
excel
files floating around.

So is it worth dumping all the excel output from my macro into a database
and comparing them that way?

Thanks,
Matt