[Developer]

introducing Access 2007

Access is the Microsoft database-management program, part of the Microsoft Office suite, that enables you to maintain databases - collections of data arranged according to a fixed structure. Its structure makes the information easy to select, sort, display, and print in a variety of formats. With Access, you can create and maintain as many databases as you need - you can even share them with other people over a local area network or the Internet.
Access is a general-purpose program that works with almost any kind of information. A database can be as simple as a list of addresses to replace your card file. Or you can create a wine-cellar database with information about each bottle in your cellar, or a bookstore-inventory database with information about books, publishers, customers, and special orders. Access can also handle complex databases that contain lots of types of information and lots of customized programming.
An Access database can contain lists of records about almost anything, from sales to sports scores. Unlike a spreadsheet program, Access makes information in lots of different formats easy to display - including alphabetical listings, formatted reports, mailing labels, and fill-in-the-blank forms. Access 2007 comes as a part of the Microsoft Office 2007 Professional suite of programs, and is also available as a separate, stand-alone product. Previous versions of Access have also been part of previous Office editions - Access 2003 in Office 2003, Access 2002 in Office XP, Access 2000 in Office 2000, and so forth. Because Access is part of Microsoft Office, sharing information with Word documents and Excel spreadsheets is easy.