Spreadsheets are documents within the Microsoft Excel program, which has a few sheets to enter data (text, numbers and formulas). Each sheet is a page divided into rows and columns, to record items like inventory, income and expenses. New data analysis tools help you track and visualise your data for greater insight, plus provide more ways to share your data.
Access is a database tool for collecting and organising information. Databases can store information about people, products, orders, or anything else. Access can be used to add new data to a database, such as a new inventory item; edit existing data, such as changing the location of an item; delete information, e.g. an item is sold or discarded; organise and view data in different ways, and share data with others via reports, e-mail messages, an intranet or the Internet.
Publisher consits of templates used to create advertisements, business cards, brochures and letterheads for businesses.