You are correct web forms and Access forms are different animals. But Access does have a feature to create web forms, they call it a data access page. No one really uses them. To use Access on the web you need a host that supports IIS so you can write a .ASP page that will connect to the database. From there users can work with the data. From home you can connect to the web database using a data source name in Access and link the web data to a local database. One database with two sets of users with different requirements. I have done this in the past and it works well. I have just started a project like this where an auto restoration shop can allow customer access to service/images/repair history and the shop does not need to update anything. It's all done through the database, but it's not Access. -Anthony -----Original Message----- From: Linda F. Johnson [mailto:linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 9:08 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Access forms vs web forms (was access-Pam) <<You should also consider the possibility that someday you may hire an employee, or want to make the data available on the web. Anything can happen! A split database also gives you the option of creating a .MDE file, which is basically a locked front end. The users can only work from the forms you create and never see the underlying data. >> Aha! Thanks, Anthony. Yes, there is a definite possibility that I would one day want to have forms on my website that would populate tables in my database....so this makes a lot of sense. Although I didn't think forms on a website were the same as Access forms. I thought they already *were* separate. Are you telling me that I can actually put an Access form on my webpage? Here, all along, I thought I had to use an html form and have that point to the Access database. Ok....now who wants to explain the difference between mde and mdb? LOL I bet you guys are glad I chose to spend my boring snowed-in day asking you all about Access A to Z, eh? Linda Publisher ~ ABC ~ All 'Bout Computers Owner ~ Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com FREE MS Office eBook Tutorial http://personal-computer-tutor.com/library.htm ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles ************************************************************* ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************