Microsoft® Office® Professional 2013 Plain & Simple

Chapter 20. Creating a desktop database with Access 2013

In this section:

• Starting Access 2013

• Creating a new desktop database

• Preparing your data table

• Adding your data

• Importing data

• Creating table relationships

• Creating a simple form

• Creating reports

If you remember Microsoft Access as the program in the Microsoft Office suite that you couldn’t imagine yourself ever needing, you might want to take a new look at Access 2013. The new features it offers make it possible for you to create apps that you can use over the web to collect and work with the data you need to keep things moving. Now, Access distinguishes between the types of databases you create for use on your local computer (meaning they don’t need to live online) and the apps you post and use ...