Hi Matt,

Excel is good when you have a small number of scenarios to analyze. A
database is approproate when the number of scenarios is large. Obviously,
the number of scenarios is beyond what Excel can analyze efficiently for
you. So, Access is the appropriate tool for you. I provide help with Access,
Excel and Word applications for a small fee. Let me put together a database
for you that you can use to analyze your reactor data. I would import your
existing Excel data into the new database. My fee would be very reasonable.
The advantage to you would be you would get to see how an Access application
is put together, you would get a more efficient system for analyzing your
reactor data and at that point if you wanted to add more functionality you
could learn Access and add the new functionality yourself.

By the way, I was previously an engineer in a large refinery so am familiar
with reactor data.

Steve



"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