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Mark Corbelli

I have Microsoft Office 2003 for students and teachers. We never have used
Access. My wife (a teacher) is taking a class and she needs access to
Access. When I go into my Microsoft Office folder, I have no trouble getting
Outlook, Excel, Powerpoint, and Word. But when I click on Access, I get a
message that there's no valid liscense and I can't start it. My wife needs
this right away. Should Access have come with my Office 2003 disc?
 
Mark Corbelli said:
I have Microsoft Office 2003 for students and teachers. We never have
used Access. My wife (a teacher) is taking a class and she needs
access to Access. When I go into my Microsoft Office folder, I have
no trouble getting Outlook, Excel, Powerpoint, and Word. But when I
click on Access, I get a message that there's no valid liscense and I
can't start it. My wife needs this right away. Should Access have
come with my Office 2003 disc?
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As I read the page at
http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/howtobuy/compare.mspx , the
Student and Teacher Edition doesn't include Access. But if you're
finding a menu item or shortcut to some version of Access, it may be
that you have it left over from a different, previous edition. There
was a bug that affected some versions of Access that gave a message
"Microsoft Access can't start because there is no license for it on this
machine" -- is that what you're seeing? If so, you may want to see if
the measures outlined by the following KnowledgeBase article help:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=141373
 
I have the Student and teacher addition. I don't know why I have the Access
shortcut then. I do have Office 97 but I overwrote it with office 2003. So,
I'm not sure if I can get it back or not. Should I try? I don't want to mess
anything up.
 
Mark Corbelli said:
I have the Student and teacher addition. I don't know why I have the
Access shortcut then. I do have Office 97 but I overwrote it with
office 2003. So, I'm not sure if I can get it back or not. Should I
try? I don't want to mess anything up.
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If you had Office 97 Professional, you had Access 97, so that's probably
where it comes from. Frankly, I don't know whether trying to fix it as
per that KB article is a good idea or a bad one, because I don't know
the details of the two installations (Office 97 vs. 2003). If they were
actually installed in separate folders, the two can peacefully coexist.
One question is, will Access 97 satisfy the requirements of the course
your wife is taking? There've been some substantial changes since then.
If it were just for personal use, I would certainly have a go at getting
Access 97 to work -- but that may not be good enough if the course is
dealing with features that were added in later versions.
 
No. The textbook is written for Access 2003 for XP. We've already discussed
it. She's going over to her sister's house tomorrow and use her computer.
One thing I don't understand though. What if I had a lot of important data
in Access 97. Then I install 2003. Why would I then loose the ability to
continue using it?
 
Data are store in .MDB files which are not affected by software
installation. They should still be there.

If the question is why you lost the ability to use Access 97, Dirk already
mentioned that it is likely to be a bug provided that you installed Office
2003 in a folder different from the folder for Office 97 / Access 97. If
you have installed Office 2003 in the same folder as Office 97, I am not
sure what rould have happened to the Access 97 software.
 
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