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Chapter 36 Access Essentials
Planning an Access Database
Of all the Office applications, Microsoft Access is by far the most demanding and conceptu-
ally challenging. Anyone who’s ever composed an interoffice memo or put together a budget
can relate to Word and Excel instantly; an Access database, on the other hand, is made up of
many individual objects, each of which must be built individually. With a wizard’s help, it’s
possible to put together a simple database application in a relatively short time—to handle
everything from tracking the contents of a wine cellar to managing inventory. Access appli-
cations can also scale up to enormous sizes, ...