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Insurance inventory?
Why don't the Catalogue publishers (Scott, Michel, Gibbons etc.) latch on
to this commercial opportunity ?? - sell their catalogues on a CD/DVD with a program to enable collectors to maintain an inventory/wants list and automatically generate a total catalogue value, to be discounted & used for insurance purposes (maybe zeroing the value of common stamps that are catalogued at the minimum price) - sell annual updates to update the catalogued values Regards, Nick "rodney" pookiethai@NOSPAM iprimus.com.au wrote in : Personally, I find MSWorks the ideal vehicle. A Flat file database of 30,000 records and 156 fields My Database of US holds 7,056 records and turns in at just over 1Mb You can split screen, hide records, and search, all of which is a doddle. If your "want list" is a blank you can search only for blank records (for that field) and print out when you are off to the stamp bourse. For data entry you can fill down sequentially, or CTRL " to copy the above cell which is good for entering a set, without a lot of manual input. MSWorks should be available for around $10 on ebay Vers 4.5a is the best. "Bill Sharpe" My first stamp inventory program was a Lotus 123 spreadsheet with 3 columns headed Scott, Mint, Used. The first column held the Scott number, the second and third had x's if I owned the stamp and blanks if I didn't. It's very easy to put a list of numbers in column A automatically. OpenOffice.org's Calc is a great free spreadsheet program. It's a pretty big download, though. Bill I have a general collection to 1990 with big gaps after 1970 so that wouldn't work. Too many countries. Too many big files with many unused lines. I could use it for my US though, which is by far my country with the most stamps. Thanks for the idea. Spreadsheets had crossed my mind but just for numbers I have - but after trying it I found entry to my raw data files is much faster. Your system would be great though for a more specialized collection. Ken My simple Lotus spreadsheet worked fine with my US stamps back in 1985 -- there were only about 2000 Scott numbers then. You could also easily delete the rows for stamps you don't have. You could use the approach for multiple countries by adding worksheets for each additional one. Of course, with your approach if you own the whole set of Presidential issues it's much easier to type in 803-834 than it is to make an entry for each stamp. Bill |
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