oy veh.
FWIW, I've written 2 enterprise level apps (Federated Department Stores, Shearman & Sterling, many years ago) in
VB and SQL. We used Access for quick and dirty modeling.
But our order entry and invoicing system here is what Access is for. this is not a complex db, nor does it hold a qty of data worth mentioning. We created it knowing we'd want to write a proper app, being done now in C#, but I am amazed at how bad Access has become over the years.
Just a bit of frustration, but I stand by the original question, which is more akin to asking why Crystal Reports sucks.
id10t, thanks, we already have cutePDF installed, love it, use it all the time.