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 is a database management system (DBMS) that businesses can use to store and manage large amounts of data.

Access uses wizards to simplify the process of creating reports or queries that select and retrieve information from your databases. Queries are instructions to the database that ask for information.

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.

Get an overview of Microsoft Office Access, along with Tutorials, Training, Features, Tips and How-To on this database management system.

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Don't have access to Access? You can use Excel to open the database you want, using the MS Query Wizard. Here's how to multitask using Office's versatile spreadsheet program.