Hello,
I'm relatively unexperienced in both Excel and Access, but have a small
assignment for a company -

They have an Excel spreadsheet with about 5000 cells describing the
tools each employee has and where the tools are located.

My job is to make a front end that can run relatively simple queries on
the data via buttons. Both data and frontend should be easy to
distribute via e-mail to others. Every reader/ user will have a more or
less recent version of MS Office installed.

Is Excel a suitable tool for this, or should I try to convert the data
to Access? What would you do?

Regards,
Peter