Recent content by Bham45

Of course I'm looking at the price of the entire package--and so would the parish. Don't know what you mean about waiting for a build. I've already determined I'm not going to attempt creating a db.

Oh boy, I just found a program that does everything our church could possibly want and then some, "Ministry Scheduler Pro." They mention every problem I deal with currently--double scheduling and even keeping families together. I will present it to the secretary on Monday to see if they are...

Thanks! I joined UtterAccess so I could download. Will spend some quality time studying this to see if it's usable for my purposes.

Mark, don't really understand about groups. There are only 2 couples that do the same job at the same time--and I already have 1 of them listed as "The Smiths." Everyone else does something different. So Mrs. Jones might do Job 1 and Mr. Jones does Job 2, but they want to be scheduled at the...

What I have done is list everyone--let's say all the sacristans--on one Excel page, with a blank row dividing them by service. Dates are the column headings. I use black to fill the cell when they are not available. When all the absences are filled in, I then look at the previous month or 2 to...

Ooh--I was searching for a ready-made scheduler that I could mess around with, but the only ones I found were for purchase by small businesses. I'll keep looking. Thanks for the tip. I'll also check out the scheduler. There are too many people involved for me to use a paper calendar. (That is...

Thanks Doc and Dave: you have confirmed my suspicions about the exceptions making it not worth the attempt to do this in Access. Unfortunately, I have no authority, nor any pull suggestion-wise, to change the system. I DID suggest we be more strict as a local children's hospital is with...

I haven't used Access in years and my logic abilities aren't what they used to be. I've volunteered to take over a scheduling job at my church, thinking I could easily make a db to handle it. But there are so many elements and exceptions, I'm not sure that it's within my abilities to create a...

Let me see if I can attach a screenshot of the relationships.

Donor/donations database: for the most part donations come from individuals, so somewhere in my db I've got "donor" equaling the Title, First Name, and Last Name. BUT now I've got some institutions donating and since the person writing the check might change but institution won't, I think in...

Things have been working well with my charitable donations database--until I discovered a problem with a calculated field "Greeting" [Title] & (" "+[Last Name]). The "Title" field has Mr., Mrs, Mr & Mrs, Ms., Miss, Rev., Rev. Mr., etc. to choose from. There's also a field "Address as" (don't...

Success once again--you're the best! But can you explain to me what the difference is between the two methods?

Thought I was finally ready to make a mailing to our donors but noticed that some were coming out 2 to a page. For instance, Mr. and Mrs. Smith's donation appeared on the same page as Mr. and Mrs. Jones'. So I put in a page break after the total of their donation--and now I"m getting blank...

Thank you, thank you, thank you! :D I had tried something close but not close enough. I added another m to get the full month.

This ought to be very simple, but I've been searching online for quite some time and can't find how to add today's date to a report formatted as "August 30, 2014." I can't understand why that's not one of the options when inserting a date. Sorry if this is something that has been asked...