Originally Posted by Mariams30

Hi everyone, I am starting from scratch to create a database which in the end may have over 1000 contacts. So far, the only two programs I'm familiar with are Outlook and Access, but none of them seem to have the functions I need (which basically are to be able to retrieve data using different searching options).
Do you guys know is there is a program I may use instead of these two? I have lots of contacts already in Outlook so I need something compatible with it. Is it better to set up the database in outlook and then export it to some other program?