I'm trying to help a friend with something but I'm afraid I need some help from people with more expertise in Office than I have.
My friend wants to install a free trial of Access 2013 on her Windows 7 desktop machine so that she can learn Access since some of the jobs for which she's applying want Access knowledge.
Normally, I'd simply install the Office 30 day trial for her but she has a copy of Office 2010 Student Home and Office which she paid for. It includes a license key. Access is *not* installed from this bundle. Neither of us is sure if Access was never part of that bundle or whether it cost extra to have Access and she was pretty sure she'd never use it so she declined to spend the extra money on it. Whatever the reason, she does not have Access from the bundle.
I see two ways forward here but I'm not sure if there would be problems with either approach.
1. We could install Access 2010 from that bundle if it's still possible.
2. We could install the Office 2013 30 day trial.
Our concern is that either approach may clobber existing work that she has, particular Word documents and Excel spreadsheets.
Would EITHER of these approaches endanger any of the documents or spreadsheets she already has? Or does Microsoft compartmentalize each of the programs in Office so that they don't interfere with one another? I have very little knowledge of Office so I don't want to make any assumptions that turn out to be wrong.
Also, does anyone know whether Access 2013 is very different from Access 2010? I'm guessing that if she had reasonably fluency with Access 2010, getting used to Access 2013 would be no big deal, right?