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 …

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.

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.

This article provides a brief overview of Access databases -- what they are, why you might want to use one, and what the different parts of a database do.

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For example, Access provides commands to connect to existing data in a Microsoft SQL Server database, a dBASE file, or an Outlook folder, along with many other data sources.

An Access app is a database that you use in a standard web browser, but which you design and modify in Access 2013 or later. The data and database objects are stored in SQL Server or …

An Access template is a file that, when opened, creates a complete database application. The database is ready to use, and contains all the tables, forms, reports, queries, macros, and …

Access 2010 and Access Services provide a platform for you to create databases that you can use on a SharePoint site. You design and publish a web database by using Access 2010 and …