does anyone know of a cheap/free 3rd party programme that can query multiple .mdb files (in the same directory) and generate a custom report? It needs to be as user friendly as possible.

Why 3rd party? You can have an mdb which is linked to the others and run your report there. The linked tables don't need to be related, you can run a bunch of sub reports within one report to assemble the data from all.

Chris B

I'm creating the database on a PC with access installed, but want to query/create reports on another PC that doesn't have MS Access installed (it has access to the .mdb on the network).