Running MS Access Forms and DB with out the software

[jenthepuckhead]

We a MS Access application that runs off of a form which outputs
report. It does not link to any outside tables. Only the table
within the application.<br><br>Does anyone know if there is a way t
make an executable file that would not need the MS Access software t
run

 

[SarahMcM]

If you have a copy of Office Developer you have the right
to package either one of two versions* of Access Runtime
with your MDB - this does exactly what you want - the
Access-less user then installs Access Runtime plus the MDB
and away she goes...

* as far as I can tell the only difference between the two
versions is that one is big and bloated and the other nice
and small

 

[John Vinson]

We a MS Access application that runs off of a form which outputs a
report. It does not link to any outside tables. Only the tables
within the application.<br><br>Does anyone know if there is a way to
make an executable file that would not need the MS Access software to
run?

You cannot.

You can purchase the appropriate Office Developer's Edition for your
version of Access (the latest version is the Visual Studio Toolkit or
something like that, they keep changing the name) and create a runtime
version of Access. Or, you can rewrite the entire frontend, forms,
reports, and all, in Visual Basic and use the Tables in your JET
database as a data repository.

But an Access database is not an executable program and cannot be
converted into one.