Excel or reports?

[Kennyej]

My predecessor used excel very inefficiently. I know that access is better suited for the job as far as entering data. He has tables in excel formatted into a company weekly report format. My question is:



Would it be easy enough to recreate this weekly report format in an access report? Or should I just do queries and import the data to excel? I'm new at access but am figuring it out at a decent pace. Thoughts? I'm not that familiar with reports yet.

[pbaldy]

I do most reporting in Access. I typically only export to Excel when the user wants to be able to manipulate the data themselves. I don't do much charting, but I have heard that charting is more powerful in Excel, so some export Access data to Excel for that.