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As Microsoft Access is not available for Mac users, Christopher Newport University has provided Access in Amazon AppStream. This allows you to run Access directly on Amazon's computers, which run Windows and allow you to control them remotely. While this allows anyone with an Internet-connected computer to run Access, it does require you to do things a little differently. .
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You can simply drag and drop files into Google Drive, but we'll use the other method. In your Google Drive folder, click on New and choose File Upload.
Then, find your file and double-click it. If your browser automatically saved the file, it'll be under Downloads.
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Once you do, you'll be taken to the App Selection screen. Choose Access.
There will be a wait while your session starts up. Once it does, you'll see the Access screen.
First-Time Setup ONLY
The first time you connect to AppStream, you'll need to connect your Google Drive. To do so, click on the storage button in the toolbar.
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On the right, you’ll see Add Storage. Click that and choose Google Drive.
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It’ll pull up a menu where you’ll have to click @cnu.edu. Then it will ask you to select which CNU Google account you want. You can’t change this later, so make sure that you’re on the correct Google Account.
You’ll then have to authorize AppStream to access your account.
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Once you've got it open, you can work with Access the same way you could if you were in front of a Windows computer (because, essentially, you are). If you make changes to the file, you can click the Save icon to save it. Just make sure Google Drive is in the path at the top of the screen.
To save the file with a different name, click the File Ribbon.
Then, choose Save As, and click Save As in the screen that pops up.
Make sure that Google Drive is in the path at the top, name your file, and click Save..
Step 6: Turning In Assignments
To turn in assignments, you'll have to do the reverse of how you got the files onto Google Drive. Go to your Google Drive and find the file. Right-click it and choose Download.
It will download to your computer. Just like when we got the file from Scholar, you may be asked whether you want to save or open the file. Do not open the file. It won't hurt your computer; you'll just get an error. If your computer is set to auto-open dowloaded files, you'll get an error message. That's okay; your file has been downloaded. Just click Cancel.
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