Tiffany, I weighed the pros and cons, and as you noted, decided the few features my Word database files had that My List did not were inconsequential. Rather than maintaining a double system, I've just been very cautious to be sure all of my Word database plants are accounted for in My List. That's been a bit problematic when I don't know for sure the precise cultivar, but I'm slowly working around that by trying to ID my unknowns. One thing I will miss is the ability to print a master list starting a new page for each change in alphabet. Typically after doing all my winter updating, I print a master list to keep in a notebook and make scribble notes during the garden season. The notebook has alpha dividers. A minor inconvenience is perhaps the divider may not begin precisely at the beginning of a new letter, but at least will get me quickly in the general neighborhood. Another minor issue is the associated photos will not always be my own. For specific cultivars that is not a problem (and likely the photo will be superior to my own), but when using a parent plan entry because the cultivar is unknown, the photo may be way off. I think my work-around for that will be to simply pick a cultivar that is closest to what my plant looks like and make a note in the personal comments that mine is a NOID cultivar closely resembling whatever one I have chosen. For my own records, that is good enough.
