Microsoft Access newbie seeking help

[buildingacomputer]

I have inherited a database that I am supposed to maintain and update. It is basically a large table with many fields. To give you an idea,

Report number, material, manufacturer, part number, Test A Result, Test B Result, Test C Result, etc. Number of fields is like 30 or 40.

I can manually enter all fields one by one. (it was maintained by my predecessor that way) But there has to be a better way since all test data are already in my Word test report.

The test report consists of many tables. Each table has some of the database fields. If I can copy and paste each of the tables, updating will be much easier.

Some specifics are:

1) Table field names and Database field names do not match. Can I change Database field names so that they match table field names?

2) Not all of the table fields are in the Database.

Please help. I don't know where to start. I will read Access manual and do self-study. Please give me some guidelines.
Thanks.

 

[WW]

access can control word (and word can control access)

you could write some code in access to load the word document, and import the various fields....

see here for a similar situation.....

import word tables to access

or you write a word macro that goes through your word report, finds, selects, and copies the needed fields to your access database