Installing Access runtime 2016 along with Office 365

Question

This is not a progrmaing question, but I am sure MS Access developers will soon hit this problem

Situation : PC has MS Office 365 Installed (Home or small Business version) which does not include MS Access 2016.

Try : Instating MS Access Runtime 2016.

Problem : Access runtime installation gives error saying, cannot install same conflicting application.

Question : Is there any way we can install both MS Access runtime 2016 and Office 365?

I develop Access front ends, which I then compile (.accdr) and distribute to my users. Users does not have MS Access installed on their PC. They just have Access Runtime.

My current temporary solution : Ask users to install Access runtime 2013 instead of 2016.

Note: All the office versions are 32 Bit (X86)

Answer 1

https://blogs.office.com/2015/12/16/access-2016-runtime-is-now-available-for-download/

Note for Office Click-to-Run (C2R) users:

As stated in the past, Office C2R and MSI of the same major version cannot be installed side by side. Currently, if you are using Office/Access 2016 C2R, we recommend that you install Access 2013 Runtime MSI if you need a side-by-side setup. The two versions are functionally equivalent, and this installation should work smoothly.

—The Access team

So yes, 2013 is the solution.

Also here .

Answer 2

The reason for your problem is that

• Office 365 is Click-To-Run-based (C2R) and
• the Access 2016 Runtime is MSI-based

and they cannot both be installed on the same machine.

Recently, Microsoft released the Office 365 Access Runtime, which is Click-To-Run-based and, thus, compatible with Office 365.

• Download and install Office 365 Access Runtime

Note that this runtime is not compatible with Office 2019 (or 2016 C2R, as far as I know). Currently, there is no runtime compatible with Office 2019, but Microsoft's response to this UserVoice entry suggests that one might be released in the second half of 2019.