Need help with extremely simple database

[jvsbarde]

Hi everyone. With the power of access I feel very certain that people will say my 'project' doesn't need the power that access can push. However, my company has 'Office' and it would appear to be the best tool at hand.

The problem we have is that in our data-entry environment, we are continuously receiving procedure changes, workarounds, and new way of running our standard operating procedures (SOP.) These come in emails, power points, or other data formats. I want to be able to quickly enter things like a change title, subtitle, description, additional information, etc into a "database" along with 1 or 2 pictures that might occasionally come in (often these changes come with an example illustration.)

I have googled everything i can think of to come up with a similar enough template that someone as basic, with limited/little access knowledge, can customize it to fit our needs. (granted, i consider myself fairy advanced with excel...)

Has anyone seen or used such a simple database in access? Am i just in way over my head? I thought it would just be very handy for us to have all of these random procedure changes stored in a similar format for future reference checking, printing new/standardized copies, etc.

If anyone knows where I could find a template like this or can point me in the right direction of a guide to making one (most of what i've found is too advanced or deals with many numbers [accounting!])

If this is in the wrong place please also feel free to move the post.

Thanks for the time,
-Julian

[rpeare]

It sounds like you're dealing with ISO compliance. I've never found access to be a great medium for maintaining a document control database other than to store the locations of files. So in your case each if you stored the document path in your Access database you could open that file from access (which has an easier way to find and use files than digging through a directory structure) for editing. Someone may have more experience than I do with attempting to actually build documents in MS access.