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.

If you ever wanted to click a magic button and make complex business tasks happen automatically, macros can make that wish come true. Macros are small programs that execute commands you specify. Write ...

Microsoft Access is a database management system (DBMS) used to store and manage data. Access is part of the Microsoft 365 suite, and is made for business and enterprise users. While they both involve ...

Let’s face it—Microsoft Excel is one of those tools we all seem to need at some point, whether it’s for managing budgets, organizing data, or tackling that last-minute project. But if you’ve ever ...

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 ...

There are ways for everyone to get variations of Microsoft 365 for free, which includes access to Microsoft Office, PowerPoint and more. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and ...