I use them to hold BDM of people that I am not sure are connected to the family. I also use them to identify naming patterns. I have got a huge spreadsheet just with a time line and references to all the mentions of the names I am searching for. I find the search and find and order/reorder functions much easier on excel than a word document. Many of the researchers whose documents I search in (Macafee in Londonderry etc) use them as they allow searching across multiple columns etc. I would not be without them. Cathy On 28/12/13 9:18 AM, "pegappraiser" <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone had luck using excel spreadsheets to hold information?  If so, what > is worth noting?  Peg S. > ------------- > Our community web-site: http://cotyroneireland.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message