Excel Heads won't use Access

Is anything about a group of engineers "normal"? Everyone, esp. engineers, resists change, so if they've been using Excel for lo these many years, you're going to have to prove to them how Access can change their lives. If they are "aware of the value" of it but still won't use it, they probably just don't understand it. And engineers don't like to admit that they don't understand something, just like the rest of us! Usually the only way to convince someone you have a better way is to show them - take a project they're currently working on and show them how they could do it much better, neater, easier, cooler, faster, more efficiently or some such thing with Access. And if all else fails, as Marie Antoinette once said - let 'em use Excel. . .Good luck!