Is "Access" a stand alone product or part of a larger program?

I've got a query that I'm not sure how to develop.
My tables:
Quotes - QuoteNo, RaisedBy, Customer
QuoteItems - RecordID, QuoteNo, PartNo, Lifecycle, Value

In a query, I have under criteria [Enter the country: Example USA] for a
field of countries.
(I found from sample query)
How do I get it to list countrys starting with "U" by just putting U in?

I need to limit this output to only records without a close date (TR_CLOSEDATE)
Any suggestions???
SELECT tblTrackingData.TR_GRIEVANCECOORDINATOR, tblTrackingData.ICNNO,
tblTrackingData.TR_GBU, tblTrackingData.TR_DATE_TIMERCVD_HOI,

I have a query that I am using to return a list of jobs to be used as
the data source of a combo box in a local vb.net application.
job:
job_id, job_num, other insignificant columns

I have a table called [locums sessions] which includes the fields 'locdate'
and 'locname' and key (autonumber) field 'locserial'.
'locname' is the name of a locum doctor, and 'locdate' is the date on which
that doctor worked a session.

I have a Query with 5 Tables in it.
tblRestInfo
tblVoids
tblItems

I just want to count the number of days since a record was received..
Could anyone please help me plug in todays date.
This is an example of wht I tried, everything except the last -[Date()]
works fine?

I have a table with one column that has data separate from the rest of the
table.   I need to move it to the same row as the other columns when the
information matches.
Example:  

I'm able to run the number of employees by Month and Division
Year    Division          Month          Actual Count
2006   Accounting     January          325
2006   Accounting     February        326

I'm trying to run a multiple parameter query to search 1 field and bring up 3
search results.  
The field is text and it looks like this:  024-001-006
I would like it to bring up approximately 3 different results but pull only

I created a query and I would like to know how I can protect certain
displayed data fields within that query from update.  I retrieve names from
my database and my query will allow others to change the names.  Some fields
I want them to be able to change, others not.  How do I ...

I have two tables. One for employees Info, the other one for employees
completed tasks.
In employee’s info table, employee ID is primary key while in employee
completed tasks table the employee ID is foreign key. Moreover, in the

Hello, I want to know how many people on the access data aren’t old enough to
vote?  The age requirement is 21.  I want to be able to list it up by using
the "NOW" function in query mode, but wasn't sure what I have to put in the
criteria to get that information out. My date ...

I have two table for employees
Table 1 for all employees(ID# , Name)
Table 2 for employees who made the survey(ID# , name)
What I want to do is showing the employees who do not make the survey