Dear Peter, One way that you could do it is by making putting your list into Microsoft Access and then adding a column with a hyperlink to the scanned images which you presumably have in another file. I have just discovered how to do this and it seems to work all right! With all good wishes, Sue Djabri ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Cox" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 8:00 AM Subject: [SFHG] Picture database > Dear All, > > I have a largish number of family pictures/portraits/postcards and > although > I have listed the subjects using 'Word' I would like to put them, with > their > scanned image, into a searchable database. > > I am not looking for anything other than a simple piece of software. I > have > been using Brothers Keeper since 'DOS' days and that is about my level of > requirement. > > Can anybody suggest a suitable programme? > > Thanks in anticipation, > > Peter Cox > > 655 > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

That sounds good. I should think it would work with a word-processing table or a spreadsheet as well. Judy Excell -------------------------------------------------- From: "susan c djabri" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 12:07 PM To: "Peter Cox" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [SFHG] Picture database > Dear Peter, > > One way that you could do it is by making putting your list into Microsoft > Access and then adding a column with a hyperlink to the scanned images > which > you presumably have in another file. I have just discovered how to do > this > and it seems to work all right! > > With all good wishes, > > Sue Djabri > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Cox" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 8:00 AM > Subject: [SFHG] Picture database > > >> Dear All, >> >> I have a largish number of family pictures/portraits/postcards and >> although >> I have listed the subjects using 'Word' I would like to put them, with >> their >> scanned image, into a searchable database. >> >> I am not looking for anything other than a simple piece of software. I >> have >> been using Brothers Keeper since 'DOS' days and that is about my level of >> requirement. >> >> Can anybody suggest a suitable programme? >> >> Thanks in anticipation, >> >> Peter Cox >> >> 655 >> >>

Peter, You can insert pictures into Word quite simply ("insert/picture/from file") and you can use "format picture" to fix its position in the text. I do this all the time. It would save you having to create a database, as Word is easily searchable for text using the "find" function. Best wishes, Tony 9967 www.tonyholkham.org > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Cox" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 8:00 AM > Subject: [SFHG] Picture database > > > > Dear All, > > > > I have a largish number of family pictures/portraits/postcards and > > although > > I have listed the subjects using 'Word' I would like to put them, with > > their > > scanned image, into a searchable database. > > > > I am not looking for anything other than a simple piece of software. I > > have > > been using Brothers Keeper since 'DOS' days and that is about my level of > > requirement. > > > > Can anybody suggest a suitable programme? > > > > Thanks in anticipation, > > > > Peter Cox > > > > 655 > > > -- _________________ Tony Holkham * Writer * *www.tonyholkham.co.uk*