How do I get a hard copy of an Access List, when I do not have Acc

[Guest]

A man who has Access can mail me a copy of the Access file, but from
experience, we cannot print a hard copy or transfer to Microsoft Word, Excel
(which I do have). He says he cannot print the hard copy from his computer
either. Have we lost all those names permanently? I do not have Access on my
present Windows XL computer, nor does the University secretary who is helping
us for a non-profit group. HELP!!! Thank you.

 

[Kelvin Beaton]

Do you know what the file extension is of the file he can send you?

If the are sending you an MS Access file you could download the MS Access
Runtime version.
From there you might be able to open the table and copy/past into Excel or
Word.

You could also have the person sending you the file, export the table(s) to
Excel or event a CSV file and you could open that in just about anything.

Hope this helps

Kelvin




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[Douglas J. Steele]

You can't just download the runtime version (for one thing, none of the
existing runtime versions are free, although the Access 2007 one will be).

However, any ODBC-compliant application (such as Excel or Word) should be
capable of reading the data from an MDB or MDE file.

 

[Albert D. Kallal]

I don't know why he can't print the hard copy.

The person should also be able to export the report to html, or even export
the data to excel.

And remember, both excel, and word can import data from that mdb file....

I don't know why that user can't export to Excel, or even print the file
(something seems wrong here).