Office ProPlus is being renamed to Microsoft Apps for enterprise. For more information about this change, read this blog post. This article applies only to a Microsoft Access database. Requires knowledge of the user interface on single-user computers. When you try to open a database that is located on a server, you may receive the following error message:. If doesn't have the Create permissions for the folder in which the database is located, the Microsoft Jet database engine can't create the locking information file.
Yes, this article is meant to tell you how to open an MDB file without Access. However, the reason many people still ask this question stems from a time when Access was a premium product not included with the standard Microsoft Office package. Things have changed drastically since those days. People no longer buy discrete versions of Office, but subscribe to the Office service. Even the cheapest tier of the service includes the desktop version of Access.
It costs less than ten bucks for a single month of service and you can get a one-month free trial with a new Microsoft account.
So before you start your journey down the road of Access-free ways to open MDB files, consider taking this obvious shortcut. There are plenty of free and Open Source alternatives to the industry-standard Microsoft package.
LibreOffice is a good place to start. In other words, you cannot start Access, open one database, and then open another database without closing the first database. However, you can run multiple instances of Access at the same time, each with a database open in it.
Each time you start Access, you open a new instance of it. For example, to have two Access databases open at the same time, start Access and open the first Access database, and then start a new instance of Access and open the second database. Note: The number of instances of Access that you can run at the same time is limited by how much memory is available.
Available memory depends on how much RAM your computer has and how much memory is being used by the other programs running at the time. Each instance of Access runs in a separate window. If you have more than one instance of Access running and you want to view them simultaneously, you can tile the windows.
You can create a desktop shortcut to open an Access database object for example, a form or report. The database may be stored locally on your computer, remotely on a network file server, or in a shared directory. Resize the Access window and minimize any other open windows so that you can see the desktop behind the Access window.
Drag the object from the Navigation Pane to the desktop. When you release the mouse button, the shortcut is created on the desktop. If you want the shortcut in a location other than the desktop, use Windows Explorer to move the shortcut to the location you want.
When you double-click the shortcut, Access opens the database in which the object is stored and displays the object.
If Access is already running and the object associated with the shortcut is in a database other than the currently open database, a new instance of Access is started. To open the object in a specific view in Access, right-click the shortcut and then click the view you want. You'll need to install Access on the computer in order to open the database. If your file is a fully fleshed out database application with its own menus and user interface elements, then you can download and install the free Access Runtime module; however, if the database doesn't provide its own user interface such as a a startup form and menus , then the runtime module won't be enough, and you'll need to acquire a copy of Access for full use of the database.
That said, if you just need to get some data out of the database, you may be able to query it from Excel. It would be worth a try. Was this reply helpful?
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