If you are like me and relatively competent at spreadsheeting, you can probably process the general data that most of us use in the office with Microsoft Excel.
I must admit to having rarely used Access, (Access 97) and last used it when compiling multiple surveys: it was very good at producing questionnaires, through to reports: the export function into Word and Excel proved useful then. Since that time I have left Access alone (2000, 2003) and similarly I have left Access 2007 alone, but with the arrival of this training software decided that rather than prepare a report for work using Excel, I would try it out in Access. In essence the functions are the same, as are the basic reports et al. What I did find as a great improvement was using this software to acquire the skills to utilise both the new interface and the extra features which have been developed over the past 10 years.
For someone who is new to Access and needs more power than that available through using Excel, this introduction is an extremely useful aid to assist you into the basic princpiles of manipulating data within a powerful database.
My only concern regarding people reading this review is that they may think that they need the software: unless you can think of a reason to use Access in the first place, you probably will not need this software. For most people, Access is something that is of so little use that I can understand why it is not packaged within Microsoft Office anymore.