Ian,

While you  are correct that Access is a database application (a
relational database to be precise), Excel most certainly is not. Excel
is a spreadsheet application which is a completly different thing. A
spreadsheet does not have tables with keys, nor relationships between
tables, cannot be manipulated with SQL statements, etc. They are just
completly different beasts.

Whether Diane has Access on her CD is dependant on whether she has the
Professional or Standard version of  the Office Suite.

Regards,
John Haase

Ian wrote:

>Diane, Access IS a database application - just like Excel, which you say you
>have.  But it's a simpler type than Excel, a bit like the old Works word
>processor, as compared to Word.
>
>My Video\DVD collection is on an Access database.  For a task of that level,
>Excel is overkill.
>
>If you have Office on a CD, you'll already have Access.
>
>Ian Porter
>Computer Guys Inc.
>Arrowtown
>New Zealand
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