How people use Access at Work

I have no experience of using Access at work. The first time I use Access was in high school. I was helping the teacher to print out all the admission letters to the new transfer students, and actually the template of the letters are the name, we just left the name blank. We had already input all the name in a Access document, then we link the word doc and the access doc together, then we just need to simply type in the student id numbers and the printer will automatically print out all the letter respectively with the names.