The simple fact that Access does not run on a Mac. period.
Emulators are your only option.

THere's a few things you can try.
One is a program called parallels which will allow windows to run on that mac.  It takes a little horsepower, but I find that with unity mode it's pretty darn good.  Access will look like it's running right next to the mac stuff
If you have a citrix server, set up access on a virtual machine there and let the mac connect to it.  If that doesn't happen for you access fortunately does not need a lot of horsepower to run.  You can set up a "headless" pc.

I know normally links are shunned here, but there is a store that sells refurbished off-lease pc's.  You can get something capable of running access for about $149.  Set it up, Set up remote desktop and your mac can remote into that.

THe link to the refurbished computer page is:  (should it be accepted in this case)  This is just one store.  There are probably other stores that also sell refurbished comnputers.

https://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?N=4294967292+519&NTK=all&sortby=pricelow

Sure VMWare Workststion went free recently
You'd still need to buy a Windows License and Office License
https://cybersecuritynews.com/vmware-workstation-free-users/

Since links ain't allowed. D. Pineault has a YouTube video where he covers that topic (almost a year ago). Near the end of the video he mentions a  program called CrossOver. I don't have a Mac. Never had a Mac. Never owned an IPhone. The quick Google search says Hosted desktop services, virtualizati0on, install Windows on a Mac, third part software (emulators), use FIlemaker (but that doesn't solve your problem).

THanks Alex.  THe one advantage to my solution is that the windows installation, usually professional to boot, is included in the 149 price.

First of all, Thank you. Everyone.

Once again i must question how many marbles i may have dropped along the way, for i truly thought they downloaded an Office package including Access for the MAC.

btw Mr. Kraft, i have four daughters; all were indoctrinated into MAC by our marvelous public school system. I learned a little about MACs having to sometimes help them, but i am proud to state that they all converted to PC after a little time in the real world. A mentor of mine once said "MACs make great printer spoolers".

I do however prefer the iPhone. I only used the Android variety for about 6 months after having used iPhones for several years, and it took overcoming significant personal resistance and shaming to even get me to try an iPhone at first. Either Android has a great advantage about it that i am unaware or it simply is a matter of personal preference.

That which all you good folks have written suggest to me that my best course now is either to convince them to get a PC, if for nothing else, this use, or perhaps harakiri (had to look that one up...).

Thank you.

Best Regards,
-Bruce

I now, with the realization evolving from shock, came to the point of seeing my reaction being the perfect motivation to play the Christmas Vacation scene by Clark Griswold when he opens the letter being his company bonus and finds it is enrollment in the "Jelly of the Month" club, but this one is my fault. "Hallelujah, ..., where's the Tylenol".

Mr. Rost, if you ever do put together a listing of "Most jackass moves", you may use this as your chart topper, but as important, let it serve as a lesson to all out there. I once wrote Mr. Rost that there should be a video on all the planning that should occur prior to embarking on a project, and though i agreed with him, that such a video would be horridly dry, besides all the parameters of scope, i now found the primary fundamental one: Make dam# sure what you are doing will actually run on their system.

Mr. McCormick. In my Senior year of high school way back in 1983 we had Apple 2 or 2E, the Mac would be released in 1984. Community college also had Apple 2E. I figured great strategic move by Apple to introduce those machines to the up and coming work force, however will/would Apple be able to break into the IBM controlled world.  I started with a Commodore 64 and was going to go to an Amiga of some sort - or an Apple something or another but cash was limited and I wouldn't revisit the topic until Windows was released and got my first Compaq Computer.  I kind of liked the Mac's but every program I was using was PC based.

I recently visited the college I went to. They updated the computer "lab/room". Apple still has a grip on one half the lab, but now it's Mac's. The other half is Windows related.  

My dad thought the computer thing would be a fad, much like CB radios.  Boy was he wrong!!!! Somewhere in the '90's I became the "Cheap Labor" to bring my dads office into the computer world.

My "Novel" is done.

Fortunately Bruce if they purchased office 365 for the mac they can also install office on a pc so technically they did get access with the mac version.  Just not for the mac.

For those mac people that will insist on not using anything microsoft, there is a good relational database called filemaker which works like access but It cannot read access files.  IT's its own sandbox essentially.  Filemaker is available for windows and mac but is not as powerful with scripting as access is and you'd miss all this wonderful help that you can get here.

BTW... 599CD.com is far superior to microsoft help.

To give credit where credit is due, the MAC, like the PC, is an amazing piece of work, and if the story about being developed in Job's garage is true, that much more amazing. I too think the strategy of getting them into the school system was outstanding. The PC folks didn't have the unified presence so could not collaborate to such an effort. I'm about done from kicking myself in the backside over this; for what i have developed, even though it is far from complete, they would be at a loss to buy a PC at today's prices; and that is presuming they don't have one around anyways.

Now to get back to the moving arrangements and looking forward to replacing a half shaft in one of my daughters' cars, probably on Wednesday, when the low is expected at 15 and the high at 31, and yes, that is Fahrenheit...