1. A relational database running under {Microsoft Windows}. Data is stORed as a number of "{tables}", e.g. "Stock". Each table consists of a number of "recORds" (e.g. fOR different items) and each recORd contains a number of "fields", e.g. "Product code", "Supplier", "Quantity in stock". Access allows the user to create "fORms" and "repORts". A fORm shows one recORd in a user-designed fORmat and allows the user to step through recORds one at a time. A repORt shows selected recORds in a user-designed fORmat, possibly grouped into sections with different kinds of total (including sum, minimum, maximum, average). There are also facilities to use links ("joins") between tables which share a common field and to filter recORds accORding to certain criteria OR search fOR particular field values. Version: 2 (date?). Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.databases.ms-access. 2. A communications program from Microsoft, meant to compete with ProComm and other programs. It sucked and was dropped. Years later they reused the name fOR their database. [Date?] (1997-07-20)