Any Mac Apps that can Open MS Access files?

[Preacher85]

As the title suggests. I am looking for apps that run natively in OS X that can open, create, and edit MS Access files. A class I am taking requires usage of Access, and I am tired of spending hours in the computer lab using a PC. I would prefer not to use VPC. If there aren't any apps, I guess I will continue to use the lab.

Thanks in advance to any advice you can give me.

 

[26139]

Nope...

As the title suggests. I am looking for apps that run natively in OS X that can open, create, and edit MS Access files. A class I am taking requires usage of Access, and I am tired of spending hours in the computer lab using a PC. I would prefer not to use VPC. If there aren't any apps, I guess I will continue to use the lab.

Thanks in advance to any advice you can give me.

If there was one...everyone would already know about it. Access is a closed source, incompatible-with-everything-and-anything-else type of program.

 

[Cooknn]

Send the Microsoft Mac team and e-mail requesting Access for OS X. I did! mactopia@microsoft.com. It can't hurt

 

[ahunter3]

Send the Microsoft Mac team and e-mail requesting Access for OS X. I did! mactopia@microsoft.com. It can't hurt

And petition your instructor to switch to FileMaker Pro while you're at it. In addition to being cross-platform (unlike Access) and a lot more user-friendly, it's a far better database application for a multi-user / networked environment.

Access is a toy.

 

[JegTDOT]

can you use this program to open access documents?

 

[26139]

Export...

Can't you export access documents as tab delimited and then toss them into filemaker?

 

[plinden]

The OpenOffice component Base supports Access databases. I don't know how good it is though, and you'll need to install X11 for OO2.

 

[nadyne]

Send the Microsoft Mac team and e-mail requesting Access for OS X. I did! mactopia@microsoft.com. It can't hurt

A better mechanism for contacting the Macintosh Business Unit is through our product feedback page.

Regards,
Nadyne.

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Nadyne Mielke | user experience researcher
Microsoft Corporation | Macintosh Business Unit

 

[CanadaRAM]

Can't you export access documents as tab delimited and then toss them into filemaker?

Umm, yes, but that's like saying you can extract the text from an Illustrator or Quark layout and open it in TextEdit...

You lose all the scripts, relationships, formats, layouts, everything. You would have to completely rebuild the business rules and formatting in Filemaker.

At any rate, totally not what the OP is looking for.