Access ELF 2002 is installed by running the setup program found on the diskettes or downloaded from our server. The installation program is called ACCELFXP.EXE (because Access 2002 was released with Office XP). [Note that Access 2002 is also referred to as Access version 10.0]

As an add-in to Microsoft Access, Access ELF follows the typical installation procedure. To begin, you must have the Add-in Manager available. The Add-in Manager is a choice on the Add-ins submenu of the Tools drop-down menu. (Note: "Add-ins" only appears on this menu once you have loaded a database.)

Here are the steps to follow:

1) Run the ACCELFXP.EXE program to copy the files to your hard drive.
These files will be placed by default in the parent directory of Microsoft Access. (The parent directory is the one immediately above the "home" directory.) For Access 10.0, the home directory is usually C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10. So the add-in will be copied into C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office. For details, see technical note.

2) Open any database, for instance the Northwind database.

3) From the Tools drop-down menu, click Add-ins.

4) From the Add-ins submenu, click Add-in Manager.
(If Access ELF already appears in the list of Add-ins, STOP and read the instructions for upgrading your installation of Access ELF below)

5) Click the "Add New" button and use the Open File dialog to navigate to the Access parent directory. (Again, this will usually be C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office).

6) Highlight elf32.mda and click Open. "Access ELF 2002 for Microsoft Access 10.0" should now appear in the Add-in window with a check mark indicating that it is installed. Click Close.

You're ready to use Access ELF with your own databases! "Access ELF" should now appear in the same list as "Add-in Manager", on the Add-ins submenu accessible from the Tools drop-down. When you start Access ELF from this menu, a vertical toolbar will appear on the right side of your screen. To ask questions about your database, you'll need to click the A and run an Analysis, which creates the natural language interface for this particular database. See the Analyze topic for more details.

Note: Starting with Access 2000, add-ins are no longer centrally located in the MS Access directory when they're installed. Instead, they're moved into a directory which holds your private tools, under the Profiles subdirectory of the operating system (Winnt or Windows). This means that once you've installed elf32.mda, the copy located in your Access (parent) directory is redundant. But you may want to leave it there anyway, as a backup.