Unfortunately I have never used or herd of Access before however this course definitely build up some interest in the program. I went online and did some research to find out in detail how Access is used and how does it differ from Excel.
Access and Excel are information storing and managing database, the main difference between the two is the format the information can be stored.
Access is used by professionals to store large amounts of data such as employee information or customer information (large corporations)
I had never used Access in work before too, but I had learned a little bit about it when I was still in high school. The concept of Access is not really to be understood. As we have to input all the data into the Access doc systematically, then they will become a database that we can use later on. Also, the most useful part that I learnt is to link the Access database with a word doc. For example, we can type the whole notification out on a word doc, and input the name of all the students in the school in an Access doc as a database. Then we can link these files together, then when we print out the notification letters, every single letter will have the same contact but display a different name.