★ APPLICATIONS ★ BUREAUTIQUE ★ AMFILE ★ |
| Amfile (Amstrad Action) | Applications Bureautique |
As the name suggests, Amfile is a database. It will certainly give the commercial Masterfile a run for its money. It is well presented. easy to operate and certainly fast enough for most practical home purposes. — A database can be compared to a card index where you can store any sort of information. A simple example would be names and addresses, with telephone numbers and birthdays. Each card is known as a record, and on each record are several fields of information. Picture Amfiie as 200 cards with up to nine lines each. On running Amfiie, you arc presented with the main menu. From here you can choose to enter information for a field or record, you can sort a file into order, save, load or edit a file - or. of course, exit from the program. If you choose 'field entry', the program will request a title followed by the label for your first field. After each entry (maximum nine), you are given the option either to add another field or to return to the main menu. After setting up your fields, you will need to fill in the individual data on each. Listing or ordering your records couldn't be simpler. There are options to list all records in full, list certain fields of records, search through the file or even sort your field entries into any order desired. Amfiie is a genuinely useful program that should be more than adequate for home uses. It is also a great way of introducing yourself to database operations dBase II is but a step away.
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