Key Points
Microsoft Access is part of The Microsoft Office System, so the basic interface objects—menus, toolbars, dialog boxes—work basically the same as other Office products or other Microsoft Windows applications.
A database is the computer equivalent of an organized list of information. The power of a database is in your ability to quickly retrieve precise information from it. In Access, data is organized in tables comprised of columns and rows, called fields and records. Access is a relational database, so you can treat the multiple tables in one database as a single storage area and easily pull information from different tables in whatever order and format suits you.
A table is just one of the types of objects that you can work with in Access. ...
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