Let's take a walk through the paths you can take to create an Access desktop database, add data to it, and then learn about next steps towards customizing and using your new database.

With Access, you can build a database without writing code or being a database expert. Well-designed templates help you quickly build databases. Easily find just the data you want with …

It explains how to create a desktop database by using a template, and how to build a database from scratch by creating your own tables, forms, reports, and other database objects.

Intro to Access Create an Access database Add tables Use relationships Add and edit data Manage data with queries Create forms

Access provides several tools that you can use to familiarize yourself with the structure of a particular database. This article also explains how, when, and why you use each tool.

If your Access desktop database is going to be used by multiple users, well-designed forms is essential for efficiency and data entry accuracy. There are several ways of creating a form in …

You can open the web database in Access, revise the design, and then sync your changes—effectively, save them to the SharePoint site. The following video shows how to …

At this point, you might want to import or link your worksheet into Access and use it as a database instead of working with it in Excel. Or, perhaps you have data in an Access database for which …

You can use Access with a database server product such as SQL Server to share your database. This method offers you many benefits, but does require additional software — a database …

Click Open to open the database for shared access in a multi-user environment so that you and other users can read and write to the database. Click the arrow next to the Open button and …