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 ...

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.

Importing data into Excel from other sources can a real headache, especially if you’re copying and pasting from an Internet source. Data that’s exported from a mainframe; from another program such as ...

Microsoft Office is the most popular office productivity suite and why shouldn’t it be? Microsoft has improved Office from time to time and now offers everything we would have wanted. Since the very ...

Even if you aren’t a Microsoft Office power user, there’s a good chance you’re at least vaguely familiar with the holy trinity of Office apps: Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. They’ve been ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...