What’s New in Microsoft® Office Access 2007?

Section 1What's New with the User Interface?

The user interface in Microsoft Office Access 2007 has been redesigned from the ground up. Microsoft made this design change to help you find the commands that you need, when you need them. Many features that previously were buried deep within Access's menu structure are now easily accessible. From the moment you launch Microsoft Office Access 2007 to the time you exit the application, your user experience will be very different from that of Access 2003, or any of the previous versions of Microsoft Access.

When you launch Access 2007, the screen appears as in Figure 1. Here, you can opt to create a new blank database, open a recently used database, open other existing databases, or create a new database ...