New to the forum so sorry if this topic has been covered before. I would like to do a complete inventory of all my train related stuff, O Gauge old and new, books, G scale, live steam etc and would like to have it on my computer in a form that can be easily updated when I buy or sell something. Anyone care to share what they are using for this purpose. I am not quite computer savvy enough to create something like this on my own.
Thanks, Jay
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i've never found anything better than Microsoft Excel for any sort of inventory task. you never have to worry about learning a tailored program for every different task. anything you can think of putting in a table form, Excel can do it as good as any program. the upside is that even if you do switch to a specific database program later on, most will accept input from spreadsheet programs, so the work of entering data which is about 99% of an inventory program setup, won't have to be repeated.
Try 'DASH COLLECTORS CLUB'. It allowes you to do a complete inventory of your collection in just about every scale including "O' and "O27"
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