New Technology

So this week our projects were in spreadsheets and databases.  I am an old hat at Excel so that one wasn't very difficult but I had never done much in Access other than enter or search for information.  I found the program almost mystifying.  I usually pick up programs fairly quickly with only a few trips to the help windows but with Access I had no idea where to start.  Even in a template I quickly got frustrated not being able to adapt an existing file to my needs.  I played around with it for a hour or so, asked some help questions and finally gave up an actually took a tutorial!  I never do that.  I refer to tutorials for specific needs sometimes but usually I just jump and in and see how I do.  Well Access - you won!  Once I took the tutorial I was able to create a basic inventory list and the form that goes with it.  But I know I barely scraped the surface of the program.  I still don't know how to integrate multiple lists into each other and create list relationships.  But hey - I learned something!