Actually I meant to say that my program will be using Access - not EXCEL. Spreadsheets can be powerful but due to their nature tons of data will be duplicated in fields creating huge files with redunant data.

With a data base you create tables of information and then relationships to other tables. It is quite complex but powerful. Then you create reports or queries and the report is created.

Like I mentioned before I can help with either and can explain more fully what I am talking about.