access or excel ?

[Kev]

My wife is about to start running a slimming club which has about 30 people
attending each week.... I have been given the task of setting up some record
system.
Type of info thats recorded when a new member joins is,,,,, name address
phone email starting weight,target weight etc etc.
Then each week the members payment and weight is recorded .

Details that are then required is such as a graph of each members weight
loss, a seperate mailing list; any outstanding payments, a list of how
much any one member has to loose to reach target weight etc

So is this best handled by Access or by Excel ??

thanks

 

[Rick B]

I would do it in Access, but you will have to know how to build it. To do
this in Excel would require many many sheets and probably a lot of duplicate
entry since you don't have the relational aspect available in Access.
Microsoft has templates online for both Access and Excel (search for the
word "weight"). Those might be a good place to start. There is also an
Access template for a membership database. If you combine that with the
weight one, you might come up with a pretty nifty tool!

Good Luck.