Creating an EXE from Access?

[burritonator]

I know that in VB6, there is an option to create an executable file so that ther users can run the program regardless of whether or not they have VB6 on their machine (although I recall that certain run-time libraries must be installed on the machine).

Is there any way to accomplish a similar task with Access, or must all users have Access installed on their machines in order to use an application created in Access?

Thanks

 

[KornGeek]

See faq181-1074

 

[lupins46]

All versions of Office have had a set of developer tools which you buy separately (except for XP where you had to buy the edition which includeD the tools).
Th tools enabled you to produce a run-time version of your Access application which could then be installed on a machine that did not have Access installed.
This is not an EXE but a full version of Access with development features disabled.
However it is always very difficult to buy the tools for anything other than the current version of Office as MS stop shipping the old version prettty soon after a new Office version is released.
For Office 2003 the tools are part of a product called
'Visual Studio Tools for Office System 2003', but the toolset name has been different for every version of Office.