The current version is 2022.  You may have gone to the wrong place to download.  The free version with the most features is SQL Server 2022 Developer Edition, which can be downloaded here:

     https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-downloads

Hi Kevin, Thanks, but after looking, that is what I downloaded. So sorry. It was installed, but I could not get the SMMS to install it.I just repeated a line for an hour that said it was setting up.

I downloaded the Express version. Should I have used another? They offer like 5 types, I believe.

Express has a max limit of 10 gigabytes per database.  Developer Edition is the same as the full Enterprise version, but is free, and has a much higher limit (524 petabytes per database).  10GB is plenty enough already, so Express should be fine.  In my old job, 20+ years of company data (mostly textual) only occupied about 400 megabytes on SQL Server.

SSMS can be downloaded separately here:

     https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ssms/install/install

Restart your PC, download SSMS 21 above, then run the downloaded executable file as an administrator, assuming your PC meets the system requirements for RAM, disk space, and all that.

Ken keep in mind that this seminar series that you posted this comment under is just for the SQL language; it doesn't deal with SQL Server. Well, there's a little bit in there. I teach some of the differences between Access SQL and T-SQL, which is what SQL Server uses, but this all works within Microsoft Access.

Thank you Richard. I'll keep that in mind