Access for Minute Tracking

[Wen]

I would like to use ACCESS for tracking my meeting
minutes. Has anyone use it for this purpose? If yes, how
do I get started?

Thank you!

 

[PC Datasheet]

Store the minutes for all meetings as a Word doc in the same folder with some
type of naming convention. Determine what it is you want to track about the
minutes. Simple tracking might be the date of the meeting and a list of the
subjects discussed in the minutes. Whatever it is that you want to track, as far
as possible create a table for each of those things and then on your data entry
form, use a combobox or listbox for each thing to select the data you want to
enter. This insures that every time the thing is entered in the database, it is
always entered the same. In the simple tracking example you might build a search
form that will list all the dates of minutes that discuss a certain subject. You
could open each document on the screen using Word automation or just print out
the list and go to your file cabinet and retrieve the minutes in the list.