Hi Simon,

The Coorong Shiraz = Rose reference was in the Excel file you posted. It may not be the same in your 'real' file.

Access is great for maintaining this sort of data, and has good reporting capabilities too - though you can still use mailmerges with it.

Ultimately, though, it all comes down to a question of getting the data structures correct. Doing that in Excel is probably easier for someone who knows Excel but not Access - which means learning a whole new app and how to manage data in it.

Whilst not as flexible as Access for data management, Excel is still quite capable and, should you outgrow it, the data can be exported to Access easily enough.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]