Since Office 2000, Microsoft has marketed the Office suite as a set of interoperable applications that easily enable integration of multiple processes. For most users, however, Office is still a suite of individual applications. Excel is used for spreadsheet analysis and reporting whereas Access is used for database functions—and that’s it. | Microsoft Excel Accessj Integration with Office 2007 Microsoft Excel Access Integration with Office 2007 Michael Alexander and Geoffrey Clark WILEY Wiley Publishing .