Hello everyone, I am preparing to do a large transcribing project for my museum but have never really done anything to this extent before and I am hoping that those of you out there with transcribing experience may be able to help me and answer a few questions I have or atleast send me in the right direction for answers. First of all, most of what I will be transcribing are ledgers. Does anyone have suggestions as to what are the best computer programs to use for transcribing such things? We have been considering Microsoft Excel and Word. Of the two, we decided Word would be the easiest to use but I'm not sure that it would be the best. Secondly, after the books are transcribed, my director would like to be able to do searches for terms found in the ledgers that bring up various fields of information associated with that term in that sentance, paragraph, etc. that she can print out with out having to print out the whole page of the ledger. For example, if you were to do a search for the term "corn" she would like it to not only list what page that term can be found on, but also any dates, amounts (2 bushels, etc.), names, etc. associated with that term and be able to print out just the search results. Is this possible with Word? Is it at all possible with any program out there? Any advice, suggestions, or help you can give is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Adrienne Marrah-Program Assistant for Museum Program and Studies. ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).