Filtering, querying, visualizing, and editing: these tools do the lot.
As an Excel pro, I could use the old Excel 2003 menus with my eyes closed. I knew where commands were located. I knew the Alt shortcut keys for the commands that I used frequently. Alt+E+S+V was Edit, ...
While Access 2003 and 2002 include a wizard for importing data from an Excel file into an Access table, you may want to create a command button that will perform all of the steps of the wizard for you ...