Many comments on this one if possible.

The place I work for is a large corporation; the
licensing of the software has to be spot on. They are
too tight to pay for Microsoft access on every machine
and because of its synchronisation and replication system
they choose to use Lotus Notes domino for communication
and database purposes. I don't know Lotus Script. They
use excel for on sheet data manipulation. Word is also
licensed on the machines. I have been thinking that if I
would like to come up to a solution to the problems in my
area I need an Access database. I cannot have money to
do this though. Could I set up excel as a database with
combo boxes for selection and entry on one sheet and
predefined cells for data on another. I could use word
for reporting. I could write sql statements to run
queries if the data was in a regular order.

Am I right in what I am thinking?