I have a new website set up with a store. I don't want to store my customer's names in Entourage. The webmaster says the data is stored in Microsoft Access. Are there any Mac programs that could open an Access .mdb file? Thanks for your answer.
I don't think there's any Mac program that can read Access files (someone will correct me if that's not true). I think you would have to get Virtual PC (included in Mac Office v. X Pro), Office Windows (2003 or XP) and File Maker Pro - an absurdly expensive proposition. Or ask the webmaster - or someone else you know with Windows - if he can convert (import) the Access database into FileMaker Pro for you. FileMaker Pro is cross-platform. If he can send you an FMP database made on Windows you can open it in FMP on Mac. Worst come to worst, he could import the Access database into Excel as a spreadsheet and send you that (an Excel file). it will be less versatile as a spreadsheet , but you could use it. You could even open it (import it) into FMP yourself, where it would be an FMP database, although I'd expect it might lose something in the translation.
I expect there are people who do this sort of thing all the time and have good techniques worked out. Since it's got nothing to do with Entourage as such - have you thought of creating a separate identity of Entourage and storing everything there?) - you should write to the general Office Mac newsgroup:
microsoft.public.mac.office
and ask there.
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Paul Berkowitz
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