Christina

In addition to Lynn's response, "yes" ... and "no"!

Behind the scenes, after you've gotten the Developer Edition and created an
application for distribution, what will have to be installed on each
client's PC is a crippled version of Access. The installation process
handles this, and the Developer Edition provides the legitimate licensing.

But it still takes up as much room (nearly) as the full-blown copy of
Access!

Does your boss wish the client not to have a way to alter the application,
or does your boss not wish to add the cost of Access? If the former, you
could create an .MDE file and distribute that to folks who had Access
installed. They would not be able to modify the application this way (and
you would not need to buy the Developer Edition).

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Good luck

Jeff Boyce
Access MVP

"Christina" wrote in message
...
My boss wants me to create a MS Access database but he wants our client to
be
able to use the database without having Access installed. "Shall execute
requiring only the MS ACCESS run time software provided by the MS Office
tool
suite". I have no clue what so ever how to do this. Any suggestions
would
be a great help.