My reaction is, why would anyone want to use Access on a Mac? There are so many better databases available! Filemaker if you need a GUI, and as others mentioned, MySQL or PostGreSQL if you want a real database (in which case you'd be using Microsoft SQL Server even on Windows, not Access).
Nov 19, 2018 Other data management apps for the Mac can be used to interface with Access tables. There's also the option of using Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion to install Windows in a virtual machine on your Mac. You'd then be able to run the PC Office suite, including Access. Regards, Bob J.
If Microsoft wants to come out with things that would be useful on a Mac, they should do: - a recent version of Microsoft Project - Microsoft Server - Get freaking Virtual PC ported to the G5, already!!! It's nothing new for the Microsoft Mac Business to fail to listen to actual Mac users. I stumbled across this in a Google search (it comes up near the top on a search for 'microsoft access mac') so I figured I'd follow up. As of 2007 there doesn't appear to be an official Microsoft Access version available for Mac. Parallels works great, but it's not a good solution for programmatic access (and you have to buy Access and Windows to install on your Mac). A read-only ODBC driver is available from.
It's closed source but relatively inexpensive. I'm thinking of giving it a try. In answer to an earlier poster who asked, in essence, why bother when FileMaker, MySQL, PostgreSQL and others are available, there are a lot of offices out there were someone starts plugging data into an Access database because 'it's there'.
A few years later, you're going to get hired to extract the data from that database and do something useful with it. To answer your post about #4 being the obvious solution (as i also found this forum on a web search); the reason to use Access on the Mac is that the Access application is already a developed, running, mature application.
It's also not just a stand-alone data collector, it grabs data from a real database, allows the user to manipulate it in Access, and then writes the changes back to sql server. But from reading the replies on this forum and others, looks like i am screwed. There is no Access that runs on the Mac, I would have to buy Parallel, Windows, and Access. So I'm stuck with re-writing it for the Mac which I'm not going to do.
While I agree that for somone used to using Access, having to learn another DB could be a pain, you don't make your points very well: Originally posted by Todd Mo: the Access application is already a developed, running, mature application The same can be said for all the other DB solutions mentioned in this thread, some being much more mature and stable than Access. It's also not just a stand-alone data collector, it grabs data from a real database Then why would you need it? Use the backing database directly and avoid the middleman. There is no Access that runs on the Mac That is correct.
For whatever reason, Microsoft did not see fit to make it available in Office for Mac. But from reading the replies on this forum and others, looks like i am screwed. Only if you are unwilling to accept change. So I'm stuck with re-writing it for the Mac which I'm not going to do. What is 'it'? Access itself?
That makes no sense. Is 'it' an applciation that employs Access? If so, you can look around some of the other forums here to learn how to properly structure database-backed applications in such a way that they are not tied to a particular database. August 15, 2007: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault. Bear, In your answer to Todd, I think you missed what he meant when he said 'the Access application is already a developed, running, mature application.' I know when I say that same thing, what I mean is the application that has been written in Access (not Access itself) is already a developed, running, mature appliation.
That why I found this thread, I'm looking to port an application I wrote in Access to a MAC because the client really does not want to pay to have it re-written. I don't blame them.
Hi I have been having the same issues with fonts, been trying to figure it out myself for weeks, really pulling my hair out, have had to work on a macbook thats over 10 years old as my new macbook wont show the font I need. I spent 3 hours on the phone to apple and 2 long calls with Microsoft, and no one can help me. Your post was how i found my font cache, no one else even told me it could be somewhere else! I have followed everything in your post, but I still can not get the font I need to work, and infact other new fonts I download do not appear either! Is there anything else you could advise? I’m at the very end of my tether Thanks Anna. I phoned Microsoft’s helpline to report an Excel bug to them.
They kept asking me for my credit card no matter how much “but I am trying to help YOU”. I don’t know why sometimes either. Sorry these suggestions didn’t help – it seems there are many issues surrounding all this.
It could also simply be they don’t know and the complicatedness is understood by Apple and is so complicated that it is hard for Microsoft to figure it out. Did you know that Microsoft has been supplying MS Office for Mac since Mac’s inception (I am watching too many Netflix documentaries)? Thank you so much for your step by step process!
I had an issue with Didot.tff font after upgrading my MacBook where didn’t show up correctly in Microsoft Word (the numbers were all messed up). Having typed all of my family recipes in this font, I didn’t want to have to redo them all just to get them to print correctly. I copied a previous version of the Didot font from my old MacBook that wasn’t upgraded and installed it using your steps above. Finally no more tweaking each file for it to print correctly! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! I am so confused!
For a few years now I have download new fonts into my Font Book and can use them all in PPT and Word. Recently I bought and downloaded a new font bundle and only half the fonts would load. I have tried creating a new collection to download the other half and while they appear in the font book they don’t appear in PPT. I tried downloading different fonts and the same thing happened (they are in my Font Book but not in applications. I have restarted my computer (many times!) and I can’t find the Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Preferences/Office 2011 – it doesn’t appear to exist!!! Any ideas on what to do next?? Yeah, I’m amazed at how many of the apple users want “microsoft” to fix the issue, when in fact the fonts work great on every windows PC, but it is only the monopolistic, unconstitutional, evil morons at Apple are the ones “blocking” fonts from presentations or programs designed on Windows.
I am in hell right now when I have to purchase overly priced crappy macbooks with their inferior operating system just because the clients who are too dumb to realize the obvious buy a Mac, and surprise surprise when the same presentation is created on a Mac and the fonts manually changed, the same fonts when sent to apple users work. Wow what a “coincidence”.
Go figure that out all you morons bashing Microsoft. The sad truth is that all you posers are just using these crappy machines that are 3 decades behind windows 10 in terms of user experience, and a decade behind in terms of technology. Sorry if I came out too strong, I am super-furious right now. This thing is beginning to feel like a twilight zone episode.