Unless they have removed the file filter (those have changed somewhat over
different versions of Access) you ought to be able to in the main menu, File
| Get External Data, then follow the prompts to import the Paradox table.
I'm not familiar with recent versions of Paradox -- I gave up on them
"getting Windows right" at PDOX/WIN version 4.5. I was an enthusiastic end
user of PDOX/DOS, however. So I can't address "more" or "less" stable.
However the recent versions of Access have indeed been stable.
As long as you don't expect Access to BE Paradox, or to work like Paradox,
there shouldn't be any major problems. One big difference: There is no
"Answer Table" in Access.
There is good online training material at
http://office.microsoft.com that
should more than get you started. The FAQ site,
http://www.mvps.org/access
is an excellent resource, and has links to many more. There are links, too,
at
http://ntaccess.tripod.com, and many posters to these newsgroups have
websites, to which they have referred in the body of their posts, or in
their sig lines.
Welcome to the Great Access Unwashed (that's all most of us claim, we who
ask and answer questions here).
Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP
