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It's 2am and I can hear the silence around me as only the rapid clicking of my typing reminds me how late is is against the pure quietness of my house and street. I have been using Excell for about 3 months now as a way to keep records of the business I am trying to develop. I am getting more sales each day and I am finding Excel is becoming less and less of the type of program I want to use. I begin to search the internet for such a program which would allow me to create my own interfaces as I add new records to a database compiling and regurgitating information about my customers and sales. I discover that a lot of people are talking about Access and since I already have Microsoft Office I decide to dip a toe and start cruising youtube for advice.

I begin to create forms and tables and everything looks swell! Until things start happening that I can't explain. Buttons are no longer doing what they did 5 minutes ago, Calculations are starting to produce the incorrect numbers and my Lack of Access know-how is beginning to hurt. Real pain in the nose and eyes and cheeks, possibly from all the face slapping I am doing each time something works for a chap on youtube but not on the screen I am looking at.

I feel like I need to reach out to Access guru's and although I pride myself on my ability to find out the answers to my own questions, I am man enough to know when I need help. So here I am and that's my story. I am sure I will be posting soon with questions many of you will laugh reading but I am a Virgin so please be gentle with me (Also I Haven't Used Access Before - See what I did there)

Wuba Luba Dub Dub x

Welcome aboard!

It would seem that you have a certain literary inclination. By any chance are you also a writer?

I'm not a writer but I am very excited to start smashing out some top notch database questions, as soon as I figure out why my Disk is running at 100 Percent... whatever that means.

File that disk question under "General" under the Access questions if you have not already done so. Describe the problem and its lead-in steps.

Diamond-Leopard said:

I am finding Excel is becoming less and less of the type of program I want to use.

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It is a very common route from Excel into Access. There are some pitfalls, the main one being the misconception that the programs are very similar! I explain more in my blog here:-

Excel in Access