Jim SHields noted, >Filemaker Pro is a fine database, and I believe it can import and export Excel files. It is capable >of relational data handling, with a given file containing multiple tables related to each other >through key fields. True, and it can also export to (and I think import from, though I haven't tried it) Word documents, a feature I have used, for instance, when I was producing the catalog for the NARGS seedlist. Jane McGary