How can I make my Access application usable by someone that doesn't
own a copy of MSAccess?
1) you can buy the developer version of Access, which contains a
distributable runtime version.
2) (just about) all versions of Windows will have Jet installed, so you can
still roll out a .mdb database as long as the interface is coded in
something the users do have: vbScript, Visual Basic, Excel, perl,
RealBasic, Delphi.
HTH
Tim F