i brought a great book on play.com
cost $3 free postage and is called excel as your database[/color:3gd5i4qm]
its been a learning curve but once mastered it cuts down the amount of time spent creating racing cards ect
using the forms in access you can easily import todays horses into a spread sheet then get acess to gather all lto figures and display them on one page at a click of a button
a multidimensional database holds all the data and the access does all the form,querys bit
i used to take 1-2 hrs everyday but now takes 2-3 mins to produce race cards for the whole day
if you havent got windows office search for open office org which is windows office but costs nothing to download all the programmes windows has,office calc,office base which is the same as excel and access