Probably best to post this on the SSE website. Dean

Wendy, I have seen the price of the memory cards come down. I never thought of that and I didn't realize they hold more than CDs. I have a card reader and suspect I could use that to add files to a memory card since I have those and not the flash drive. I wonder if a CD or DVD would have a longer lifespan than a memory card? I have blank DVDs but haven't tried to figure out yet if I could use those either. I imagine they hold a lot more than a CD. As you can see, I haven't even started down the road to figuring it out yet. Thanks for those tips. As for location of plants unplanted, well two thoughts. One I hate having potted plants hanging around the garden waiting to go in, but I still end up with them too. I think to be thrifty, you almost have to. You see something on sale and you get it even if the bed they are going in is not prepared. So, I usually leave the list of plants purchased in my Journal until they are planted in the garden. If you wanted to add them to your list as soon as you bought them, you could leave the location column blank. Or you could label them 'in pots' for plants you keep in pots all summer intentionally. Or 'not planted yet' or some other phrase, for those that are in limbo. That way you could do a search for all plants not planted yet. I suppose if you left it blank, you couldn't. I do have two pots that are planted year round and I hadn't thought of how to add those to the list yet. I guess I would give their location as 'Green Pots'. If I couldn't use color to designate which pot, I would use color and location of the pot. I'm still mulling over whether I will add Annuals to the list. First I thought I would leave them off since they change every year, but now I am thinking it might be great to be able to pull up annuals by year since I change mine a lot. I have found myself trying to remember the name of a variety of a certain annual I used the year before and not wanting to go looking for it in my Journal. It is not easy to do a search of the Journal when you don't have a name. It takes more time to look through the purchases to find just the one I want. It would be easier I think in this document, being able to sort and come up with a compact list of annuals and then sort again by year. How will you handle annuals?

There is a wonderful simple tool (free) you can downwload, Snipping Tool. Do a search on the Computer Help forum. ( Vista also has a Snipping tool I believe) You select the area you wish to copy. You can then paste it into Word pad or a document , OR save the "snip" as a JPG.

Start by moving all of your headings one column to the right. Then in the empty space at the top of column A type "NUMBER". Next, in column A, on row 2 type number "1" and continue across the columns filling in your first name and address, etc. In column A on row 3 put number "2" and enter your second name. Don't worry about the fixed row numbers on the left - they are just to help you find your way around the Excel page (simplified explanation). Colin