Introduction

The Internet and the World Wide Web have become an integral part of computing today. By providing quick and easy communication and data sharing to users around the world, the Internet has made it possible for data to have a global, rather than simply local, application. Microsoft Office Access 2003 provides support for the World Wide Web in four ways:

• By allowing database tables, queries, forms, and reports to contain links to objects on the Web

• With tools to navigate the Web from within the database

• Meeting with a remote audience over the Internet in "real time"

• With the ability to save tables, queries, forms, and reports as Web pages or to create Web pages based on data contained in the database

Each of these features makes it easier for you to include Web features in your database and makes your data available to the outside world.