Cataloguing Your Stock

[pete284]

I use LibreOffice Calc which is truely free. (Son has MS Excel on his laptop but you have to pay an annual fee to Microsoft of £89!).

[Luke Piewalker]

And anyone else can also access it if the worst happens (such as hacking, which is not that infrequent). 

I was going to do the 'where everyone can access it' joke... 

[CarriageShed]

And anyone else can also access it if the worst happens (such as hacking, which is not that infrequent). 

I was going to do the 'where everyone can access it' joke... 

That's the Cloud for you. 

[austinbob]

Will be paying my £11 soon as the programme is very comprehensive.

Did you try the demo?

Indeed I did Bob and it is so simple to use and in my opinion pretty cheap as well, looking for instruction sheets will be thing of the past as can attach them as PDF to each loco.

By the way sent you PM

Just bought the full version at £10.99 and got the registration key within a few minutes (never seen such a long registration key though!) Looks like a good deal.

I appreciate the fact that you can use excel and other progs to perform this function, but this program is ready made, comprehensive, works and is not expensive. I'd rather use this than develop my own spreadsheet or use OneNote (I'm not sure that this a good choice for this application anyway!)

[Bigric]

Hmm , this is an interesting little thread ! Obviously , lots of Excel users + other options . Also ties in with insurance cover to some extent maybe ? Personally , I use a card index file for all my loco details (including  costs , CVs , problems , reliability issues etc) .These cards I use ALL the time for reference . Never got round to listing all the other rolling stock , but periodically I do take photos of my stock storage trays for this reason.....but not as often as I should ! Also , all my locos (DCC) are on Decoderpro & on Railmaster which is my operating system .Cheers , Ric

[georgehgv]

Will be paying my £11 soon as the programme is very comprehensive.

Did you try the demo?

Indeed I did Bob and it is so simple to use and in my opinion pretty cheap as well, looking for instruction sheets will be thing of the past as can attach them as PDF to each loco.

By the way sent you PM

Just bought the full version at £10.99 and got the registration key within a few minutes (never seen such a long registration key though!) Looks like a good deal.

I appreciate the fact that you can use excel and other progs to perform this function, but this program is ready made, comprehensive, works and is not expensive. I'd rather use this than develop my own spreadsheet or use OneNote (I'm not sure that this a good choice for this application anyway!)

Glad you like it Bob, that is why I thought worth sharing, very easy to add items and edit, very impressed that I have all the details to hand and searchable. Great for locating stored items etc that are listed.

[Luke Piewalker]

I did have pictures in my excel, but I took them out as I decided I didn't need them.

[mr magnolia]

Hi
I have never bothered cataloguing my stock, but seeing your post set me thinking, "suppose I had a burglary, I only have a vague idea of what I actually have got"
Perhaps I had better set to and at least make a list

I have never bothered cataloguing my stock either, but seeing George's OP set me thinking " wow, here's a whole new level of stuff that I've not thought of - I can truly horrify the family with this!"

I'm looking forward to grappling with this new and obscure element of the hobby - thanks! ☺😨

Donald

[Zakalwe]

if it comes to my passing and my wife sells my n gauge stock i hope she gets what they are worth, not what i said i paid for them......

same applies to my bikes as well

and the laptops

and at least one car

[grid078]

I`ve been using MTC for the last two or three years after seeing it advertised in the N-Gauge Journal, suits me down to the ground simple to use and keep track of stock. After sales service is brilliant too, I managed to corrupt my short cut link to the program one email later I had the info to retrieve my lost data. Would highly recommend this to any one.     

[hawkeye]

Help, just received the registration key  but for the life of me can't figure out how to find the page to insert the registration key  . Any help greatly appreciated. 

Tony

[Paddy]

For me the advantage of using Excel is that I am not tied in to a proprietary application.  I know Excel is from Microsoft but all being well it is going to be around for many years to come.  I have spreadsheets dating back to 1991 that I can still access today with the latest version of Excel.

Paddy

[austinbob]

Help, just received the registration key  but for the life of me can't figure out how to find the page to insert the registration key  . Any help greatly appreciated. 

Tony

Tony go to the top of the screen and click on the right hand 'Maintenance' Tab
Then click on the 'Registration' tab at top right

You will then be asked for your email address (I think) and the registration key which you can copy and paste from your registration email so you don't have to type a 1000 characters in!

Make sure you do the email or user name first and then the registration key. If you do it the other way round it sticks a computer two fingers up at you!!

Regards and happy catalogueing.

[austinbob]

For me the advantage of using Excel is that I am not tied in to a proprietary application.  I know Excel is from Microsoft but all being well it is going to be around for many years to come.  I have spreadsheets dating back to 1991 that I can still access today with the latest version of Excel.

Paddy

Paddy

MTC allows you to export all or some of the data to an Excel spreadsheet if you need to. Problem solved!!

[mr magnolia]

I'd like to see the option to add more than two 'self named' data fields, and I was a bit disappointed to realise that the 'maintenance' tab wasn't to record my stock maintenance efforts, but to maintain the database itself...

Generally quite effective though.

Donald