Access 97 is a desktop database application for organizing, sorting and reporting information. This step-by-step manual contains practical exercises to help readers build Access 97 skills. Lessons are structured around basic-to-complex, exercise-related goals, and exercises include precise instructions that show readers how to complete actual database tables, forms and queries. There are graphics and analogies from real life to clarify difficult concepts. After working through the exercises, readers will have created a fully-functioning Access database. The accompanying CD-ROM includes award-winning software, offering three choices to match the user's preferred learning style. It allows the user to work with product features and from within a software environment itself, as it talks the user through each procedure.