Is there anywhere I can buy an older version (simply for the
hoped-for lower price) of Access?
Will it run as a stand-alone? Or do I need the corresponding
older version of Office and/or OS?
Remove _your_teeth_ to reply.

<haggis@_your_teeth_nerdshack.com> wrote in message
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> Is there anywhere I can buy an older version (simply for the
> hoped-for lower price) of Access?
> Will it run as a stand-alone? Or do I need the corresponding
> older version of Office and/or OS?
> Remove _your_teeth_ to reply.[/color]

Older versions might well cost more than the current one.

All versions of Access run by themselves.

Did you try a web search? EBay or Amazon might be a place to look.

--
Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP
Email (as appropriate) to...
RBrandt at Hunter dot com

Actually, the current prices for ms-access are quite cheap.

They are:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/acce...y/default.mspx

$229 for full version of access 2003
$129 for upgrade version
(qualifying versions for upgrade go back all the way to access97/office 97).

In fact, even the really cheap works database qualifies for a upgrade (the
last 5 pc's I purchased came with works!!!).

So, if you are like me, and have a self with 5 office 97 disks, between
works, and a97 disks laying around...you have
plenty of opportunity to purchase the upgrade version of access for $129....


At that price...it really is a good deal...

--
Albert D. Kallal (Access MVP)
Edmonton, Alberta Canada
pleaseNOOSpamKallal@msn.com
http://www.members.shaw.ca/AlbertKallal

> $129 for upgrade version

actually, the upgrade price is only 109!!!

I'm saving my 81diskettes for Microsoft Office circa 1993 for Antiques
Roadshow.

Lyle Fairfield wrote:
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> I'm saving my 81diskettes for Microsoft Office circa 1993 for Antiques
> Roadshow.
>[/color]

Oh great... While an interesting show (except I simply hate Valerie
Pringle on the Canadian version who is a total clueless goofball) it's
done so much damage to real antique prices, driving up prices charged
for pure junk. Will it do the same for old Access?

--
Tim http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~tmarshal/
^o<
/#) "Burp-beep, burp-beep, burp-beep?" - Quaker Jake
/^^ "What's UP, Dittoooooo?" - Ditto

"Tim Marshall" <TIMMY!@PurplePandaChasers.Moertherium> wrote
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> Oh great... While an interesting show (except I simply hate Valerie
> Pringle on the Canadian version who is a total clueless goofball) it's
> done so much damage to real antique prices, driving up prices charged
> for pure junk. Will it do the same for old Access?[/color]

I doubt it, but y'never know, y'know?

If you can find a brand-new, still-in-the-shrink wrap, copy of Access 2002,
I might think that's a better buy than Access 2003, unless you are going to
have an "always-on" internet connection, because there was not much change
between 2002 and 2003, and with Access 2003, they went to "online primary"
for their help.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP

Tim Marshall <TIMMY!@PurplePandaChasers.Moertherium> wrote in news:e1cf73
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> Oh great... While an interesting show (except I simply hate Valerie
> Pringle on the Canadian version who is a total clueless goofball)[/color]

Valerie is a red-head. Surely that means something ...?

--
Lyle Fairfield