Access and customer contact list

[Guest]

For a small business: is Access the best way to set up a customer contact
list? I also want to be able to create email and regular mail distribution
lists from my customer database.

 

[John Vinson]

For a small business: is Access the best way to set up a customer contact
list? I also want to be able to create email and regular mail distribution
lists from my customer database.

I'd say this could be done either in Access or in Outlook. The
advantage of Access is flexibility and expandability; Access'
disadvantage would be that it'll take much more work to create the
application before you can start entering contacts. The advantage of
Outlook is that mailing lists and contact entry forms are built in
already and don't need to be reinvented; the disadvantage is that you
don't get the power of a full database.

John W. Vinson[MVP]