Excel or Access for DB?

[John H. Power]

I am a lawyer and the court system has settled on Word as the required format for submitting certain legal documents. I do a lot of evictions and in WordPerfect I create a database file within that program and merge it into a form file. It is easy and very efficient. I have tried to accomplish the same outcome in Word with zero success. I know there is a Mail merge function but it is totally different from WordPerfect.

I keep seeing reference to the fact that Excel or Access can be used as the DB when using Word and I am thinking that may be a better way to go so my question is which of the 2 would be a better choice. Also, I want to be able to put the program on my 2 computers but keep the actual data info on my thumbdrive so I can work either at home or in the office. Is that possible?



Thanks.