"Then I would need to build PHP pages to access the tables. Of course you would have to have local server software with PHP and MySql installed." I don't know if PHP has an interface to ADO but using that would allow you to keep the .mdb format without requiring Access. If you use vbscript/jscript for the scripting, everyone with Windows has a local webserver already.

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