Originally Posted by Stuart W

FLASHBACK I used to teach ICT at my local College and this looks surprisingly like some Diploma work..

Are you aiming for a Level III Diploma in Computer Applications by any chance?

If so, you need to speak to one of the lecturers at your College as they should have taught you all about this.
If you are doing the diploma, I can understand why you have been asked to create a database in Excel, because the diploma coursework was writen years ago.

FYI, again, if you are doing the diploma, it might be worth pointing out that you have spoken to Stuart Willet formerly at Harlow College who has explained that we had to DROP the excel project because excel is now so advanced, we couldn't program in the 'faulty' spreadsheet without Excel automatically correcting it.