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I know we all keep starship lists, but I was just curious as to what format everyone uses (Excel, Access, FilePro, etc.) Mine is a simple Word document. I was wondering if anyone stores their ship list in a database. I have been thinking of transferring mine to one.
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Starship database: completed; History of Starfleet: done; website: probably never
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Started off in a simple TXT format 13 years ago, switched to a nice little DB program called Nutshell in 1994, jumped up to the far-easier Lotus Approach 97 in 1997. I can sort by name, hull number or class. I don't bother with mission type...at least, not until I nail down all the designs.
On my site, I exported by class & posted as simple TXT documents for ease of reading. MAN, was that bitch to format some of the larger classes--there's 5000 Oberths & like 3200 Excelsiors in there.
That reminds me...maybe I should start working on the Corona-class ships again....
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My starship list (canon, book, and LUG RPG), is currently on a Canon Starwriter 70 Word processor, though I have been considering redoing it in Word, at least so that I could post it when people ask for book ships.
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I have an Excel spread sheet for all my starship designs, in order of registry number, all canon starships in order of class name (alphabetically), and all canon starships in order of registry number.
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I have a giant list that's 142 pages in Word 2000. It includes all canon ships, LUG, FASA, SotSF, SFD, SFP, etc, etc. The actual format of the list goes like this:
Class Name Ship Name--Registry Number--Other (Class Ship, date launched, proposed, etc)
The list originally was sent to me sometime back and I have since tweaked it a little and I add ships when I read a novel with a ship not in the list or if new ships appear on the show.
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[This message has been edited by Fabrux (edited September 26, 2000).]
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I use a Works database with these field headings:-
DES (U.S.S. or S.S) NAME PREFIX (NCC, NAR, NX, etc) REG (1701, 7100, 74656 etc) SUB (A,B,C,D,E) CLASS COMMENTS (Lost at the battle of Wolf 359, etc) STATUS (OPERATIONAL, DESTROYED, MISSING etc) SEEN (Yes, No - reffering to whether or not the ship has been sighted or just mentioned)
its quite detailed, but that just makes it easier to find ships or groups of ships. I generally arrange the whole list by reg number then by sub reg.
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