I have also tried to expand my monitor from the 600x800 higher. My Monitor
goes south when I do that. It becomes a blur. Pat
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Silvey <matt12@rcip.com>
To: Roadster Mail List <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, April 30, 2001 7:15 PM
Subject: Database Update #2
>Well, in trying to figure out how to make my database work for everyone out
>there, I have checked into a few of the options out there.
>
>>From Microsoft: I was also unable to find a read only verion of MS
Access.
>I did download the "Snapshot Viewer" for Microsoft Access but that doesn't
>work. I was unable to open any portion of the database.
>
>>From Sun Microsystems: I downloaded and installed Staroffice 5.2 It was
>also unable to open the database properly. It did allow me to open the
>tables within the database but none of the reports were there nor were the
>forms from which I enter info , print reports and generally operate the
>database.
>
>To answer a couple of other questions I received regarding the database:
>
>The database is not merely a combination of tables. There are forms from
>which data is input and then distributed to more than one table. It also
>uses queries, macros and some limited visual basic to combine, add, etc.
the
>data within the tables to put that data onto the reports that the system
>generates. I wish I could set it up simpler, but I have yet been able to
>figure out how.
>
>As for exporting it or converting it to some other format, Microsoft (being
>Microsoft) does not allow you to export the entire database. The only
thing
>it will allow you to do is to save the database in an earlier version of
>Access.
>
>
>I did some research on Microsoft's website and found that they do offer a
>solution that might work. They sell Microsoft Office 2000 Developer's Tool
>Kit. This supposedly has a "runtime" version of MS Access for developers
>that they can make part of their database. This "runtime" portion then
>allows the database to be distributed to anyone on a PC, whether or not
they
>have Access, and allows them to fully use that database. As always, there
>is a downside to this solution: Microsoft wants $400 just for the
>Developer's Tool Kit. I am currently trying to get a copy installed on my
>computer at work (as I do use Access quite a bit there and it would be very
>usefull for a couple of the databases that I use) but I have not heard back
>whether or not my company has the program.
>
>If anyone else out there, for some reason, has that program or has access
to
>that program, they also might be able to convert the database to the
runtime
>version. If anyone does, please let me know.
>
>If I am able to get my hands on that program and can get the database so
>that it will function independently, I will let you all know and will post
>it on my website.
>
>Sorry for all the confusion regarding this.
>
>Matt
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