Using Access or Excel to manage your data - Microsoft Support
In general, Access is better for managing data: helping you keep it organized, easy to search, and available to multiple simultaneous users. Excel is generally better for analyzing data: …
Top 10 reasons to use Access with Excel - Microsoft Support
When using the Office family of products, should you use Excel or should you use Access to manage your tabular data? A companion article, Using Access or Excel to manage your data, …
Import or link to data in an Excel workbook - Microsoft Support
By linking an Access database to data in another program, you can use the querying and reporting tools that Access provides without having to maintain a copy of the Excel data in …
Download and install Microsoft 365 Access Runtime
Download the Microsoft 365 Access Runtime which allows you to run Microsoft 365 Access applications if you don't have the desktop version of Microsoft 365 Access and need to use an …
Decide whether to create a desktop database or an Access web app
Your first step in building a database is to decide whether to create an Access web app or an Access desktop database. The decision depends on which tools you have available and on …
Create a database in Access - Microsoft Support
Open the Excel workbook, make sure each column has a heading and a consistent data type, and then select the range of data. Select External Data > New Data Source > From File > Excel.
Use Microsoft Query to retrieve external data
You can use Microsoft Query to retrieve data from external sources. By using Microsoft Query to retrieve data from your corporate databases and files, you don't have to retype the data that …
Using the Large Number data type - Microsoft Support
You can also use the Large Number data type to work efficiently with linked or imported data, such as an SQL Server database that uses the bigint data type. Before the Large Number data …
Learn the structure of an Access database - Microsoft Support
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.
Access included as part of Microsoft 365 and Office 365 …
Microsoft Access is now included as part of Microsoft 365 Family or Personal, Microsoft 365 Apps for business and Microsoft 365 Business Standard subscriptions.