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Originally Posted by marty59
starting an inventory sheet which I hope to someday have in an Excel spreadsheet format.
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Been there, done that. I tried using a spreadsheet years ago, and it was a waste of time. Forgetting about lists for a moment, your tubes have to be organized and labeled so that you can find Tube X when you want it.
Before long, I stopped updating the spreadsheet because it was time-wasting duplication. In less time than it took to fire up Excel and find something in the list, I could simply walk into the workshop, see at a glance what was there, and grab what I needed. The list added nothing, since after looking up a tube on the list, I still had to walk into the workshop and find that tube in the physical world.
If you own many thousands of tubes and constantly buy/sell, a spreadsheet might be handy for inventory control. I'm not in that category.
Just my $0.02.
Phil Nelson