Old versions of Access

[haggis]

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.

[Rick Brandt]

<haggis@_your_teeth_nerdshack.com> wrote in message
news:q6********************************@4ax.com...

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.

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

[Albert D. Kallal]

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
pl*****************@msn.com
http://www.members.shaw.ca/AlbertKallal

[Albert D. Kallal]

> $129 for upgrade version

actually, the upgrade price is only 109!!!

[Lyle Fairfield]

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

[Tim Marshall]

Lyle Fairfield wrote:

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

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

[Larry Linson]

"Tim Marshall" <TI****@PurplePandaChasers.Moertherium> wrote

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?

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

[Lyle Fairfield]

Tim Marshall <TI****@PurplePandaChasers.Moertherium> wrote in news:e1cf73
$u****@coranto.ucs.mun.ca:

Oh great... While an interesting show (except I simply hate Valerie
Pringle on the Canadian version who is a total clueless goofball)

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

--
Lyle Fairfield