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Microsoft has decided to bring Access out of retirement and include it in the Microsoft 365 collection of apps. Written by: Shauli Zacks Last updated on August 02, 2022 Best Parental Control for iPhone & iPad.IPVanish VPN vs Private Internet Access.

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Like you, I already looked at Office for Mac and saw SPECIFICALLY that it does not support Access, or PowerPoint for that matter, another nice program. I found this forum request today while searching for a way to find some relational database which works on the Mac. EL YUCHO! Boy did Microsoft do us a disservice on THAT upgrade. I'm trying hard to switch over to Mac, so I don't have to go to Win8/10.

I've fixed a few FileMaker databases as well. I currently use Access 2010, simply cuz I do NOT like Windows 8 or 10 so have not upgraded. In fact for one of them, they asked me to please help fix their Access database that stopped working and now they can't use it (it was written in Access 97, luckily I still had the books for '97, so was able to repair the database without losing any of the data). I AM AN ACCESS PROGRAMMER, and I have numerous databases that I've created for myself as well as numerous charity organizations (including but not limited to Cocoa Playhouse, SunNFun, Civil Air Patrol). I agree with what you say here, FileMaker is NOTHING like Access, and you've already mentioned most of the reasons, so I won't repeat them. I SERIOUSLY would like to speak with you outside of forums so that we could carry on a more technical conversation than can be done here. There are plenty of users out there and plenty of examples if you need VBA code. If you need to do something clever, definitely get a Windows and Office Home Edition license and start using it. I'm surprised that we never pushed Microsoft hard enough to port this to OS X because there's nothing like it on the market. and you can use it for production work with the right plan in place. I've worked in 14 languages in my career and Access is hands-down the most effective rapid-prototyping environment so far. You can create applications with Access and separate the executable from the data store. FileMaker can be fiddled with using AppleScript and has some simple interface components, but that's it. VBA isn't object-oriented because its class entities lack inheritance, but you can fake a lot using interfaces. My previous team built a suite of apps that was nearly 1M lines.

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My last big project was 70k lines of VBA code that scraped data and modeled an airplane electrical system. (3) Access comes with a rich programming environment and the ability to make sophisticated forms for doing real work. (2) FileMaker uses a flat-file data structure. Here's how: (1) Access has an ANSI SQL-compliant query interface, FileMaker doesn't. I know this response is a little late, but as someone who has used both FileMaker and Access extensively I would like to clarify a few things for you. I've tested Crossover with several apps including Microsoft Office, RootsMagic & AceMoney accounting softwareĭisclaimer: I'm not in any way affilliated with Crossover - I simply think it's brilliant!

(this is something I've recently discovered), if you download an access file from the internet, or an email and double click it, it will automatically launch Access.

You can open and save files to your Mac's drive no probs.

It even shows up in the dock, which is a nice touch!.

It looks like a Mac app, and can be used alongside 'Native' Mac apps.

I've attached a couple of screenshots of Access 2007 (a little old, I know running on my Mac). Their 'version' of MS Access is called Libre Office Base However, I got my copy in this 'bundle' from Stacksocial ( ) for just $10! If you're in the UK like me, just pay with PayPal and they'll handle conversion to your local currency.Īs for alternatives to Microsoft Office. wFRFigE-VgtcHj4w.1&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2FNow, Crossover costs $60 from the developer's website.

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You can get a free trial of Crossover to 'try before you buy' and to check your particular program works.

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And it's still cheaper than buying Parallels and Windows 7, cheaper than FileMaker Pro (provided you've already got MS Office) and uses up much less system resources!

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exe installer and it runs the software in an emulator as if it was a Mac app. I bought a program a while ago called 'Crossover'.