Master Phone - Address

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We have a mixture of Win98 / WinXP Pro machines on a Windows Peer to Peer
network. Some machines have MS Office SBE and some have XP Office
Professional. Access is only on some of them (SBE doesn't include Access.)

We want to create a master phone number, address database of clients and
notable business contacts. Would like to have it located on one workstation
with any other workstation able to access easily and be able to add / delete
/ edit records. (Is it possible to have more than one user accessing at the
same time?

I have seen "contacts" in Outlook. Any opinions on trying to use Outlook
compared to starting anew with Access? Or is there some other type of
contact software I should be looking at? Thanks.
rob
 
You can certainly place a database file on one machine and make sure that
the directory is shared.

However, each user will have to have ms-access installed to use the
database.

If you were to get serous about this, then you would installed a dedicated
server, and use that to share the data.

The instant you start sharing data in ms-access, then I would suggest you
grab a book or two on ms-access. While ms-access is very easy to use, you
are now making steps into setting up, and creating a information management
system.

You can actually purchase a developer edition of ms-access that eliminates
the need to have to install ms-access on each pc. However, if you are just
talking about 2 or 3 pc's, then I would just purchase ms-access for each pc.
The "developer" edition of ms-access is really for experienced developers.
 
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