Is Access Suitable?

[GemmaJarvis]

Hi,

I am looking to design a database for my company. I need to produce
contracts which I imagine I would do as a report and other such things. Am I
choosing the correct program here?

Thanks

 

[John W. Vinson]

Hi,

I am looking to design a database for my company. I need to produce
contracts which I imagine I would do as a report and other such things. Am I
choosing the correct program here?

Thanks

That's a very thin set of requirements to go on. Access is an excellent
database for small to medium (up to some tens of millions of records)
databases; it has a very capable report generator. But if you're talking about
generating large, multipage contracts with long paragraphs of legalese and
perhaps illustrations, then a program specifically designed to print documents
(Word, for example) might be more appropriate.

One option would be to store the variable data (names, dates, other contract
details) in an Access table, and use Word automation from Access to
incorporate the data into a Word template. This is more work but gets the best
of both.

John W. Vinson [MVP]