[AccessD] Advice on A2010....

Oh boy!  Yeah, the user has a very different perspective from the developer.

My township had an Excel spreadsheet for registered voters.  The state 
developed a new standard and the spreadsheet had to be updated to 
match.  Of course, in the township's spreadsheet the voter's name was 
just one cell, with no standardization for data entry (my name, for 
instance, could have been entered as "Tina Norris Fields," "Fields, Tina 
N.," "Fields, Tina Norris," "Mr.s Tina Fields," and any other 
configurations you can think of).  So, I was asked to help.  When it got 
to the field for a name suffix, such as "Jr.," "Sr.," "III," "Esq." and 
the like, the office assistant actually said to me, "No, we don't have 
to worry about that, there aren't that many of them."  It had never 
dawned on her that the field would be required if there was even one 
person with a name suffix.

I get it that our different perspectives color the way we see the 
problem.  I just haven't figured out how to properly anticipate the 
user's likely take on it.  :-)

T

Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields at torchlake.com
231-322-2787


On 12/8/2011 4:06 PM, Stuart McLachlan wrote:
> Yep, there was "no way" that this would ever be run other than over a couple of hours during
> a normal work day. :-)
>