Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorhook" data-source="post: 4532430" data-attributes="member: 58401">Hey team! Computer Use is a cross-class skill for me, so I need a little bit of help. I'm looking for a program; I know what I want this program to be able to do, but not what sort of program to look for. Let me explain.I'm trying to create an index of second language vocabulary for my own use in studying. (If anyone's curious, the language is German.) So far, I've been using Microsoft Excel 2003 to create lists, and although I'm aware Excel can be made to perform some of the functions I'm looking for, my Excel-fu is definitely weak.Essentially, I want to be able to enter vocabulary data into a program and then be able to access that data in a variety of ways. To summarize, I want to be able to:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Index, display, and print entries in three columns: A column of German words, another column for additional forms of the word, and a third column for each word's English translation;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Customizable font effects (Red for feminine words, bold for verbs, and so on), ideally automatic;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Self-alphabetizing!;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sortable according to a variety of parameters, specifically: Alphabetically in German, alphabetically in English, by word type (noun, verb, adjective, etc.), by word gender, and by chapter, ideally by simply clicking on a column heading;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Customizable data! I add information to the program, and it sorts it out for me based upon what I tell it, so that I have an index exclusively made up of data which I have inputted;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Selectable data! I can choose to print the entire index (sorted however I want), or I can choose to only print words from Chapter 3, or Chapters 1 through 5, or only part of Chapter 7, for example.</li> </ul>Obviously I'm asking for a lot of functionality and customizability from a program. Like I said, I'm no pro with Excel, but I can't shake the feeling that what I'm looking for will end up being some kind of spreadsheet program (perhaps the one I'm already using). If that turns out to be the case, you're going to have to teach me/help me learn to make it do what I want it to do.Any help you guys and girls can offer would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!Sincerely, - Kyle (aka doctorhook)</blockquote>

Verification