I'm a newcomer to spreadsheets, but have sucessfully used gnumeric for a major project. I now face a new challenge of a different kind and would like to know if a spreadsheet is really appropriate for it.
It is easiest to define this challenge in terms of specifics. It involves a list of hundreds of names and some associated data, and each name in turn is associated with perhaps 2-50 other names, each of which might possibly be associated with ten other people. I'm trying to store this data in a way easy to modify and to generate lists. Therefore there are three levels of information. A spreadsheet seems ill-suited for a data tree such as this, but I would like a confirmation. I would prefer a spreadsheet because I can give the data to someone running Excel. If gnumeric can handle this fairly well, how should the data be organized. On the other hand, if a database is really necessary for the job, which would be best suited for export of data into the Windows world (I'm dealing with people who have never heard of Linux at all!). Haines Brown _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
