This text is a free introductory text that introduces Microsoft Access Office 365 and relational database design.

Various texts have been used with some success but were felt lacking for various reasons such as: (1) being workbook style with extensive tutorial lessons, (2) being too focused on a technology, (3) having design material that did not fit well with more advanced courses, and (3) being so expensive that some students opted not to purchase.

Our first-year course has no prerequisites and is taken as part of the Core Curriculum by students from various disciplines. Students who enroll in the course obtain: (1) a working knowledge of computer applications in the workplace, including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), and Microsoft Access.

Version 2.0 includes two appendices that cover a) creating forms that display data in a parent/child format where two tables are related via a one-to-many relationship, and b) entity-relationship modeling for supertypes and subtypes.

Version 3.0 includes revised Microsoft Access Office 365 content with improved accessibility to users supporting w3c accessibility standards.