Is Access the right tool to use?

[kbrooks]

Our company wants to add the kitchen menu to our intranet site. Currently the dietary team leader handwrites the menu and makes copies for various departments. I asked her if she would mind typing it out so it can go directly on the intranet without a 2nd party having to type it up from her handwritten menu. She's fine with that but knows the bare minimum about computers.

So I'm wondering if I should set up a database to require nothing but data entry from her? Or if I should just have her type it in Word, Excel, etc? The thing is, I want to only have the menu for the current week and on, so she'd either have to delete the previous week, or have some kind of function to do it for her. Also if I had it laid out real nice, she'd need to copy that and use it to add the new week.

Make sense? I guess I'm not sure if this belongs in an Access forum, but I'm wondering if Access might be a little bit of overkill in this instance.

 

[RichMorrison]

Sounds like the menu is static, once published it does not change for the week.

If so, storing in an Access table and publishing to a web page is overkill.

Sounds like Word is a better choice.

You will still have to work out the mechanics of publishing a new menu each week.

RichM

 

[FoFa]

If licenses are not an issue, using something like Access to make it friendlier is always nice. We do that here for those computer challenged folks, and they appreciate it. Plus if you use a dynamic web page (like ASP or something) you can just read the DB directly.