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Dear Dave I couldn't just send a thank-you. Yes, I am enjoying it, but it is fairly exacting. I have made 80 entries so far this week, and they each require me to read my 26-year-old writing in the diary, check the date and the show, give the venue and the town, and then write about 25 words...

Dear Emma-the-Husky Thank you for your suggestion, but my situation is complicated. The sources for the database, especially the performances table (though there are others) are three in number: (1) the earnings book, kept with pen and ink up to the point I've reached (October 1988), gives the...

Dear Steve, Thanks again. I have now paid proper attention and am backing up as per official instructions once on the hard drive and again on the One-Drive. By the way, where are you? Presumably not in Australia, like Moto485.

Dear SteveH2508 Your advice is very good, and I try to back up, but I'm not sure I'm doing it right. What I do is to save the file "Archives" and a "Copy of Archives" on my hard drive, and then to put another "Archives" and "Copy of Archives" on Onedrive. The disadvantage of this system is...

Thank you! It worked immediately. I had spent a disturbed night and got up at 5:30am. I was too frightened to go back to the computer and spent an hour or so doing overdue household chores, but, when I finally summoned up courage, there was your reply, and my problems were solved. It's a...

I am now 86 years old and have been working for eighteen months, making a table of the performances my late wife and I played in our tours as a two-person theatre between 1960 and 2008. Today I entered the 3,200th, which meant I had completed about four fifths of the job, but this evening I have...

Good to hear from you, Galaxiom. You really are amazingly patient. In answer to your main question, Miscellaneous A, B, C & D are (roughly speaking) similar material, but I listed them like that for purely practical reasons: they are kept in 4 different boxes. What I haven't yet tabled at all...

Dear Galaxiom, Over a week ago I finally sent you a zipped version of our database, which you had kindly said you would reorganise and improve for me. Naturally, that is bound to take time, and I have no wish to appear impatient, but it would be a comfort to know for certain that you had...

Dear Galaxiom, On 25 October I finally sent you a stripped-down version of my database, which you had very kindly offered to improve for me. Naturally, this is bound to take some time, and I have no wish at all to appear impatient, but I should be very grateful to know if you got it all right...

Here goes. After struggling for two days, I had to appeal for some professional help, but here at last is the compressed file. I do hope it proves to be legible and intelligible. Sorry to be such a fool, Bill. (Maybe it will be easier next time!)

Dear Galaxiom, Sorry you've had to wait so long for this message. I have now made a special copy of my Archive and called it Th_Rbt_Galaxion, in which I have stripped all the tables but one to three sample records. At the time of writing this message, I have not yet zipped it, but I have...

I don't wonder you get a lot of thank-yous. Taken note of your zip advice. Do you think I'm backing up enough? I will send you a gutted database as soon as I can manage it, but for the next few days I'm a bit pushed.

Galaxiom, you're unbelievable. It will be quite marvellous if you are willing to set up all the fine tuning for me. Hours seem to go by while I struggle with Microsoft Help. The curious thing is that, whereas Google corrects my silliest errors, Help insists on their preferred word, so that it's...

Dear Galaxiom, Thanks again for your incredibly swift response. I haven't had much time today, and I couldn't quite work out how to make a Calculated Field of Mon/Tue/Wed etc, though I could see that the software offered Calculated Date. Your comments on Many-to-Many look fascinating, and I...

Dear Galaxiom, Thank you so much. Your advice about adding extra rows was absurdly simple and worked at once. My only question is, Why was I so stupid that I didn't discover it for myself? (Perhaps you had better not answer that one.) I'm interested in your comment about not needing the Day of...

To my shame, it is almost a year since my last post, and I never even said thank-you for the three friendly replies you sent me last November. Please, Steve Geary, Davies 107 and Severin, will you accept my grateful thanks and profound apologies? My only excuse is that I am very ancient and...

My name is Bill, and I am an actor. For nearly 50 years my wife and I ran a small-scale two-person touring theatrical company, based in London, UK, and travelling all over the British Isles, through much of western Europe, across the United States and once even in Kenya. We retired in 2008...