Ella

We aren't there.  We have no way to know the specifics of your situation.
What works for one situation may prove totally off-base in another.

If you were working with a spreadsheet, I could imagine starting out as
you've described.  Access is a relational database, though, and you'll need
to familiarize yourself with "normalization" if you want to get good use of
Access' relationally-oriented functions and features.

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP