Busy Week

I have a question that maybe you folks out there in friendslistland can help me with.  But before I ask my question, gosh darn it, I need to tell you about my week.

( About my week )

I still need to 1) fix the kitchen hood, 2) fix the grout in the shower 3) fix the grout in the other bath, 3) clean out the office 4) oh yes, and clean house and buy presents for the general birthday celebration we will be having with my dad and my brother.

Fortunately I still have about 10 days to do it, or I would go insane.

And my question

So... any database-savvy people out there who can tell me how a table, a query, a form and a report relate?

Specificially I am trying to figure out how to take a bunch of data (for example a table of names and phone numbers) and pull out those records that match a particular name--but I want the user to be able to just put in the name.

So some kind of page or something where there are spots you can put in, say, a name, or a phone number or something and get back all records that match that name.

Would that page be a form?  That generates a query?  And returns a report?

I'm so confused.

If it helps any, I am using the Base database program from OpenOffice.org  There is a help function but it assumes a level of knowledge I don't have.