Re: Conlanging with Excel?

From: "Sanghyeon Seo" <sanxiyn@...>
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 4:47 PM

> 2006/5/27, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:
>> What *can* you do?
>> Can you e.g. use regular expressions to find words?
>> I must confess I've pretty much never used Excel for
>> anything...
I have Excel 2000 and also use it sometimes, but at least as
far as *I* can tell you can't use regular expressions. Don't
know about the recent version of Office ... uh ... 2003?
2005 maybe? I've changed to OpenOffice a year ago. OOO's
Calc
*has* searching with regexps.

> Me neither, but I guess at least Excel can sort... Say,
> sort lexicon by spelling and English translation, which
> is not too easy with paper and pencil.
Use cards.

Other than that, I'd go with what Dana said and use some
database. I'm currently making the effort to copy my
txt-file based, unreversable Ayeri/English dictionary into a
SQL database -- yes, I'm doing this every now and then for
months already, but it takes a while to copy 1250+ words by
hand, including making up example sentences out of thin air
that explain or disambiguify the use of words if there's
anything to note.

Cheers,
Carsten

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