ecblackiii wrote:
Access is a relational database program. Excel is an electronic spreadsheet. Either will work for the purpose, but for me, Excel is easier to use. I've been doing all my financial record keeping, resource allocations and financial planning on Excel for the last decade with no problems, and like the complete visibility of every entry and calculation.
Yes it is. So is Quicken, albeit a dedicated database application.
Excel might be easier to use, as a spreadsheet, but it's much more cumbersome to replicate database functions in a spreadsheet. It depends on what you want/need the application (Excel) to do.
I use spreadsheets a LOT, but I've also programmed in Clipper, Access, and my favorite was dBase-IV (& V).
So I know how they differ.