dlt@csun.edu (Dave Thompson) (09/28/88)
Advice needed: A friend of mine produces a newsletter called California Calendar, which is a listing of northern California events in various categories such as music, art, festivals, etc. The newsletter is simply a Microsoft Word document at present. She is interested in expanding into an on-line information service and has approached me to help design such a system. A am a long- time Mac user but have never developed any software before. The main thing I would like to be able to do is store events in a database (third party software or Hypercard??) with which I could develop a browse/query front-end and also BE ABLE TO UPLOAD DATABASE ENTRIES INTO A MICROSOFT WORD DOCUMENT once a month to produce the hardcopy newsletter. I am experienced in database design and have no doubts I can do the design and programming. My question is: how easy will it be to extract database records into a Microsoft Word document? Am I better off using a commercial database package or will Hypercard get the job done? Any database recommendations? Please e-mail responses to: hplabs!csun!csuchico!robin -or- lll-crg!csuchico!robin Thanks... Robin Goldstone Systems Software Specialist, CSU Chico Computer Center ************************************************************************ -- Dave Thompson uucp: dlt@csun.edu Computer Center Cal State University, Northridge phone: (818) 885-2790 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330