Creating a sortable electronic (simple) database.

[AnonymousBird]

I am keen to have an electronic record of all the books I have read, those I have not yet read but wish to and those I don't yet have but also wish to!

This will be a list of a couple of hundred books or more and ideally I would like it to be "sortable" at a click or two by author, title, date read etc. Can I do this in some sort of list or table in Microsoft Word, or does it have to be the dreaded Excel??? (I have never used excel so in order to get this into excel will require lessons from my less than patient husband!).

TIA.

I reckon I only know how to use 5% of Excel's functions. That's not a problem since all I need to do for work is to enter data and to either sort or to calculate/total.

If you go down that route it will just take me 5min to tell you how to do it. I just need to know which version of Excel you have.