Microsoft Office is more than the sum of its parts—you can link an Excel database table to an Access database, integrating your data and adding value. Here's how.

How to Generate an MS Access Report to an Excel File. Microsoft Access is the powerful relational database application that ships with professional and enterprise versions of Microsoft Office.

If you find that you are frequently creating new sheets, or need to create complex calculations, switch to an Access database and import the sheets you have already created in Excel.

For such scenarios, Access is a vastly superior tool to Excel. In Access, you would create one table (a list) of employees, with each record containing the employee’s name and ID number.

We show you how to import data from Access Data Database into Micrsoft Excel. Access is the primary tool for managing a database.

Learn how to export an Access database to Excel. When you export data from Access to Excel, Access stores the copied data in a file that can be open in Excel.