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Post by The Sonar Chicken on May 19, 2009 7:35:47 GMT
It's said that those who need to write up on huge articles, that require a lot of specific research and data, often use Microsoft Excel to input all that data. My question is: anyone knows how they do it and how they organise their data?  I've found one to two example sites but gah... it can be hard to find a suitable link when every link goes to some darned computer site or business site. I know this one supposedly should go into the Writing forum but it's not really about writing and more about technical organisation. Sooo... *confused* |
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Post by Elliot Kane on May 19, 2009 9:36:19 GMT
Excel has the advantage of being a ton of squares rather than lines, so it's great to create all tables, graphs, etc. Once they are done, you can simply copy them from Excel and paste them into Word as an object - a graphic file. Done this a few times  |
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Post by Nero the Glorious on May 19, 2009 15:18:46 GMT
Can you be more specific chicken man? EKs right though, I had to write a 25 page research paper (it ended up being 32 pages) for my masters class...I had lots of graphs and charts, all made in excel. You can even use excel for colors and borders, font style etc, it all transfers to Word.
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on May 19, 2009 22:21:17 GMT
Well, it's more like... I've heard of people using Excel to organise lots of text. How do they do that?  |
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Post by Galadriel on May 19, 2009 23:11:37 GMT
"Access" is a better program to organize data, and easier to use if you ask me. But I don't know if it still exists though
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Post by Hand-E-Food on May 19, 2009 23:48:49 GMT
"Access" is a better program to organize data, and easier to use if you ask me. But I don't know if it still exists though Access well and truly exists. It's part of Microsoft Office Pro. It's good for personal projects, but no so much for office use. |
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Post by LaFille on May 20, 2009 0:24:37 GMT
There's software made just for writing organization that might be more user-friendly, like Liquid Story Binder by Black Obelisk Software. If you keep an eye open for it, you can find offers for it free eventually (it was at giveawayoftheday.com a few months ago). |
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on May 20, 2009 8:09:32 GMT
Thank you for all the suggestions. I took a look at the writing software suggested... errr WOW, that's some very advanced writing stuff.  Hey Elliot, how do you organise your writing? Excel, eh? |
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I've found one to two example sites but gah... it can be hard to find a suitable link when every link goes to some darned computer site or business site. 
