Access

Microsoft Access is definite not the best database. It is simply the most easy to use database. Without any knowledge of SQL. Do you need a very simple local database, use Access. Wanna use a web-database, use MySQL.

Access and Excel

• http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905400.aspx Access Developer Portal
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278973/EN-US is a tutorial for doing VBA in excel.
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825796 References that you must set when you use Microsoft Office Access 2003

Excel

• Excel has its own page on this wiki.
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/219151, How to automate Excel from Visual Basic

Office

• http://support.microsoft.com/ofd Microsoft Office Development
• http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/default.aspx Microsoft Office MSDN

See also

On the desktop the VBA sources are checked out in c:\usr\vba.