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

Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access both store data used to write a financial report. However, Excel has more built-in options for quickly generating a report from a small amount of financial data.

Microsoft Access is the powerful relational database application that ships with professional and enterprise versions of Microsoft Office. Countless businesses around the world use Access databases to ...

Did you know that you can export an Access database to an Excel worksheet? In Microsoft Excel, there are features to import or export data from or to an Excel worksheet. When exporting data to Excel, ...

All details in this article are correct as of October 29, 2025. Accessibility to some of the latest Excel features depends on ...

After a relatively short beta, Microsoft today announced that the Excel API — a way for developers to programmatically use Excel for Office 365 for doing calculations, building dashboards and more — ...