I am considering buying a laptop that comes with MS Office small business
edition. This version does not include Access. I really need Access for our
business. Is this available to purchase seperately? I cannot seem to find
it available at local retail outlets.

You can buy Access stand-alone direct from Microsoft. I believe the cost is
somewhere around $400, though you should qualify for the Upgrade price. You
might consider upgrading the software, when you purchase your laptop, to the
Professional edition. It would be cheaper.

Sharkbyte



"xfarmer" wrote:

> I am considering buying a laptop that comes with MS Office small business
> edition. This version does not include Access. I really need Access for our
> business. Is this available to purchase seperately? I cannot seem to find
> it available at local retail outlets.

"Sharkbyte" <(E-Mail Removed)-> wrote in message
news:E7F068C7-C3A6-468F-97AC-(E-Mail Removed)...
> You can buy Access stand-alone direct from Microsoft. I believe the cost
> is
> somewhere around $400, though you should qualify for the Upgrade price.
> You
> might consider upgrading the software, when you purchase your laptop, to
> the
> Professional edition. It would be cheaper.

Actually, the upgrade box is only $150 Canadian dollars (last time I looked
at staples). This would mean if you have any older version, then ms-access
is rather cheap.

The full retail version of ms-access is listed at $309 Canadian dollars on
the staples web site.

In US dollars, that is about $271 for the full version, and the upgrade
price is thus only about $130 dollars.

As far as I can remember, if you have any old version of office...that means
you can get the full version of ms-access for $130. That sounds really cheap
to me...

15 years ago...you would regularly pay 500 for a set of developer tools.
Really, when I see the above prices....both are very reasonable to me....

Of course, if you need several of the office programs, then of course a
"bundle" or office suite will still save you a lot.

However, it seems the price of ms-access is quite reasonable when purchased
as a separate product...

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

Actually, my prices are even higher then what is listed on MS site...

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).

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

--
Albert D. Kallal (Access MVP)
Edmonton, Alberta Canada
(E-Mail Removed)
http://www.members.shaw.ca/AlbertKallal