Microsoft® Office System Plain & Simple -- 2003 Edition

Chapter 11. Working with a Database

In this section

• What’s Where in Access?

• What Is a Relational Database?

• Using an Existing Database

• Creating a Database from a Template

• Adding a Table to a Database

• Modifying a Table

• Adding Data to a Table

• Creating a Form

• Creating a Report from the Data

• Extracting Information from a Database

• Analyzing Data with a PivotChart

• Defining Relationships Among Tables

If you’ve worked with an electronic list of items—customers’ names and addresses, parts lists, and sales records, for example—you’ve worked with a database, maybe by entering items in specific places on one or more predesigned forms. What happens to the information you’ve entered is that someone—perhaps you, perhaps a coworker—eventually manipulates the data to achieve ...