Jimmy,
As long as you can put every information you want into ONE table: use Excel or any other spreadsheet.
Otherwise: start with making a good normalized database design as outlined in http://www.geekgirls.com/databases_from_scratch_1.htm, (through
, for example.
On your MS Office CD (provided it contains MS Access) there's an few-100-page e-book titled "Making Applications with MS Access" or something like that (on the Office 97 CD at least, I didn't check later versions). Good stuff, but not really something to master in a few days.
In fact, my university IT-students have serious trouble to design a workable 15 table-database for a more or less real case-study (part of a garage), and then I don't even speak about the rubbish they produce trying to make a somewhat working prototype in MS Access.
Kees
I have no clue about MS Access. However I would like to create a database of wines that I have had. What is the easiest way to do it?
I know I can look it up in Google and the software, but I want a shortcut.
JJ

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