Microsoft Office Access 2007 enables information workers to quickly track and report information with ease, thanks to the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface and interactive design capabilities that do not require deep database knowledge. Office Access 2007 makes it easy to start with predefined applications that can be modified and adapted to changing business needs. Information can be collected on forms by e-mail or imported from external applications. Shared information on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services lists contributes to a healthy and transparent ecosystem where information can be routinely audited and backed up while keeping Access as the rich client interface.

Office Access 2007 is for people who want to track information and report with multiple views to make sense out of that information. Users will benefit from the improvements in creating and editing tables, forms, and reports. Specific audiences, such as part-time project managers who tend to track their projects in spreadsheets and need to report progress with multiple views, will benefit from the easy copy and paste table in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and the new report design capabilities. Current Access users will benefit from the new collaboration capabilities, both for collecting data and for sharing it with teammates.

Everyone has information that can benefit from the structure provided by a database. A database is a collection of information related to a particular subject or purpose, such as tracking customer orders or maintaining asset lists.

• With no coding expertise and very limited database knowledge, any information worker can start, organize, and track complex information in a structured way with Office Access 2007.
• Collect information from others and share it more securely on the Web with Office Access 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services.
• Make sense out of complex information with Office Access 2007 by quickly building rich reports that display sorted, filtered, and grouped information in a way that enables more informed decision-making.
• Bring transparency to data by upsizing your file to Windows SharePoint Services with Office Access 2007, where you can audit revision history, recover deleted information, set data access permissions, and perform routine backups.

Office Access 2007 can be used as the everyday workhorse for information tracking and reporting.

• An office manager can track company assets (such as furniture and computers) and report assets by employee, manufacturer, or other criteria.
• An engineering manager can track issues (such as software bugs) that arise during new product development. The manager can also build custom reports that indicate open issues by product, engineer assigned to the issue, issue category, or other criteria.
• A marketing manager can track a project’s progress and budget and report to managers as needed.

Visit the Access home page for purchasing information.

Visit the 2007 Microsoft Office system pricing page for more information.

Yes. Find packaging information on the 2007 Microsoft Office packaging page.

You can download a free trial of Office Access 2007 (as part of Office Professional 2007). Or, you can try Office Access 2007 in your browser through the 2007 Microsoft Office system online test drive.

The Microsoft Office system provides customers with a set of programs they can choose from to best address their business needs. Office Access 2007 is a database management program for storing information (which can be collected with Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007, or imported from Office Excel 2007 or a SharePoint list) and creating reports. Office InfoPath 2007 can be used as the interface to help gather information more effectively. Office Excel 2007 is a spreadsheet program that can help you analyze numerical data. Use Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 to graphically present information.

Office Access 2007 continues to build on the rich data connectivity of the Jet database engine and will continue to be a great place to create impromptu reports over disparate data sources. Office Access 2007 now uses its own version of Jet (called “Ace”), which has been extended to provide improved connectivity to SharePoint data. Office Access 2007 will continue to be the best tool for Microsoft Office system users who want to extend the data tracked in a line-of-business application or to combine data from several existing databases into a single report.