Microsoft access for mac free download - Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac 7.0.3 Update, Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac Update, Parallels Desktop for Mac, and many more programs. If you have Access up and running in Windows, and want to move your data to a Mac, there are two ways that I know of that would work: 1. Dump the data from Access into a file (e.g. CSV or SQL dump), clean it up and import it in your application on the Mac (e.g. Excel or MySQL respectively).
One way to do it is to open the file on a Win machine with Access installed, then export the tables to 'CSV' or 'SQL dump' files. Take those exported files and import them into your DB (MySQL is a good choice). As far as a 'helper app' to convert them, there isn't one that I'm aware of that'll run under OS X. The last time I searched for one was a year ago or so, but nothing came up then and I seriously doubt there was a strong demand for such a thing. Access is a bit weird in how it does things, which would probably be a nightmare to have to convert.
Excel for Mac isn't radically different, but everything around it is. To run a query from Excel to an Access database, you need something to answer to the query. In this case that would be Access (via ODBC) or some built-in support for Access databases in the operating system (as you get in Windows). Since you don't have either on the Mac, there isn't anything around to respond to the queries. I've been searching for something similar for years, but I always end up biting the bullet.
Just find some poor sod with Windows and Access, and ask him or her to convert your database to something you can use (CSV or SQL dump as suggested earlier). Three caveats that I'm aware of: 1. Setting up ODBC on the Mac is generally a pain in the you-know-what. Making it actually work is even worse. If Microsoft Query is to work, ODBC has to work on the Mac, even when the server is somewhere else.
Even when ODBC is set up properly and working on the Mac, Microsoft Query might not. Access isn't based on ODBC, but on Jet, and as far as I am aware, there is no Jet engine for Mac OS X. If you have Access up and running in Windows, and want to move your data to a Mac, there are two ways that I know of that would work: 1.
Dump the data from Access into a file (e.g. CSV or SQL dump), clean it up and import it in your application on the Mac (e.g. Excel or MySQL respectively). Set up Access to connect to MySQL on the Mac, and transfer the database that way. It's not that difficult.
Have a look at this page: [INCESSANT RANT] In conclusion: I hate Access. It's very convenient to use as a stand alone database on your own desktop, much like FileMaker.
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And just like FileMaker, it's a plague as soon as you want to share the database with others. Mind you, FileMaker used to be at least decent, with built-in web server and all, before they moved all innovating from R&D to the marketing department. MySQL, PostgreSQL or anything else that runs on multiple platforms, and can be accessed over the network should be mandatory these days.[/INCESSANT RANT]. In responce to Filemaker being bad. I must disagree.