Access' conditional formatting feature is just as comprehensive, flexible, and powerful as Excel, but many users aren't aware it exists.

The basic forms and reports that Access creates automatically make a good starting point for your database projects. It is, however, likely that you’ll want to improve them so they look better and are ...

When you need to bring your Access data into a Word form, a little VBA can expedite the task. Susan Harkins walks through an example to demonstrate the process.

In addition, you can quickly build your user interface forms using Access’ form design graphical tools. Processing is carried out by SQL Server on the database server, not in Access on the ...

Using Access as a FE removes both reasons and possibilities to use ADO.NET.<BR><BR>Yes, you could instead use Visual Studio and Windows Forms to create a GUI to your data sources.