As far as I know, Excel is simply a spreadsheet program, I've never heard of anyone making a database in Excel. However, Microsoft Access, is a very common database program. I think if you're planning on doing much with databases, you should buy a program that is designed to create and manage databases. There might be a way to make a database just out of Visual Basic, but it would be difficult, time-consuming, and VERY tedious. Then once you have your Access database up and running, it is not hard to create a custom front end application to control your database in VB.

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