Help w/ Building Database

[Guest]

Hello,

I am fairly new to access; and I need an easy way to keep track of a couple
things.

I was thinking of doing it in excel, but it would be more complicated in
excel I was told.

So, here I am in access. This is what i need; I had explained it better in
excel but here goes:

I need to track salesman information. But only certain salesman; and by state.

So someone would enter the salesperson, the company sold to; the state the
company was in, and the amt of pairs sold to that customer.

Then I need it to be put somewhere to be analyzed, like out of 2000 pairs
michigan bought 20% of that which is 400 pairs.

I think that is about it. If you have any questions please let me know.

Thank you.

 

[Jeff Boyce]

Jeremy

Did the person who told you it would be hard to do in Excel have an agenda?
(I.e., were they selling Access?<g>)

Access is a relational database. It has a fairly steep learning curve.

If you only need to sort/filter by some category(ies), and take
totals/percentages, by all means reconsider Excel (or some other
spreadsheet).

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP