Great info.

I've downloaded a half-dozen or so similar products, & am reviewing them for
my own use. So far, ms camcorder scores very well (against the others) for
similicity & usability. But some of the others have a humungous # of
features that are probably not in camcorder.

I'll post my reviews of the other products here, in due course, if anyone is
interested. Is anyone?

Do you know whether ms camcorder relies on any particular video codec being
present on the recording and/or playback PCs?

Cheers,
TC


"Jeff Conrad" wrote in message
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Hi Brendan,

Curiosity got the best of me so I tried this out some more for fun.
Microsoft Camcorder installs and runs just fine on Windows ME.
The AVI output shows nothing but a blank screen.
However, compressing to an EXE file runs just fine on 98, ME, NT, and XP.
I'm pretty sure it will run on 2000 as well and I'll test that on Monday
to be sure.
Just FYI.

--
Jeff Conrad
Access Junkie
Bend, Oregon

"Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message
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Recording. I don't think it will work with ME, but it's been a while, I
could be wrong. And no, it was not included with any version later than
97.

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"Jeff Conrad" wrote in message
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Hi Brendan,

Are you referring to the actual recording process or the 'playing'
process
on later Windows
versions?
I know the utility could not record using an NT machine, but I could
play
them on one.
I used 98 to record all the Help files.
Since Jan is still using ME, maybe by chance it works with that OS???

Just a thought.
Do you know if that came bundled with 2000, 2002, or 2003?

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"Brendan Reynolds" brenreyn at indigo dot ie wrote in message
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Unfortunately, Camcorder doesn't work with recent versions of
Windows.
Some
problem with a missing video codec, whatever that means.

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"Jeff Conrad" wrote in message
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Hi Jan,

Just a suggestion from left field.
Do you or your office still have a copy of Office 97 Professional
Edition?
On that CD is a program called Microsoft Camcorder.
In essence it is a utility that "records" what you are doing on
the
screen.
You press start to record and then stop to finish.
You can then compress and covert the .avi output file to an .exe
file.
The file could still be pretty big if you record for a very long
time,
but
burning it onto a CD
should be no problem.
You could break up certain aspects of the project into smaller
chunks.

I have a personal restaurant database I have been working on for a
couple
of years and for Version
1.0 ALL of my Help files were created with this utility. For
example,
to
display posting an invoice
I simply recorded an example. All of the Help topics were launched
from a
"Help Form." It worked
very well, but became too much maintenance as the project became
MUCH
bigger.

Since these are .exe files, virtually any computer should be able
to
open
the files whether or not
they have any Access/Office version. I'm not sure if this utility
came
bundled with later Office
versions. I know you can also purchase programs like these as
well.

Just a thought.

--
Jeff Conrad
Access Junkie
Bend, Oregon
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"Jan Il" wrote in message
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Hi All - Access 2002 XP - Win ME

Is there an Viewer for Access like the one for Word? I need to
show
a
sample
of an Access app. on a machine that does not have Access loaded.

If so, I would truly appreciate a reference or a link where I
can
downloaded
it. I've been searching for one on the Internet for the past
hour or
so,
but, haven't turned up any information for one yet. Just thought
I'd
see
if
one was available before I went any further. :-)

Best regards.

Jan
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