How to Create a Database in Access First, launch Access and choose File, New. Since you’ll be building this database from scratch, choose Blank database.

Microsoft Access allows business and other large, data-sharing entities to create databases storing vast amounts of information. Anyone using Access can share these database files with one another.

Flat databases and single-sheet workbooks are the most common type of structure in Access and Excel because most projects do not have enough data or complexity to require a relational database or ...

Microsoft's Access database management software, as offered through Office 365 service plans, now supports the dBase file format, yet again.

Encrypt and password-protect your database in Microsoft Access. Learn how to set a Password on an Access Database.

I consider myself an Excel poweruser. I program in it daily (20ish hours a week) and manage a few thousand lines of code for my personal use (stocks and finance). Outside of Excel, I know very ...