Adwords won't let me look

at the information on the website because I use Adsense.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

I am an Adsense publisher who does not use Adwords. One of my clients asked me a question about Adwords so I clicked the "advertising programs" link at the bottom of the home page. When I then clicked the Adwords link it detected that I was an Adsense user and I was redirected to a screen, which said ...

"We noticed that you are an AdSense publisher. Were you trying to log in to your AdSense account instead?

The only options on this screen are to login to my Adsense account or open an Adwords account, neither of which I want to do. This seems totally wrong to me. It's almost as though they are trying to force me to start an Adwords account. Is this a new thing and is there any way of getting past it to the Adwords information?

(Apologies if I am missing anything obvious or if this has been discussed before but I seldom check in here.)

[netmeg]

It's not new, and it probably did that because you were logged in to your Google account, and your Google account would be tied to AdSense. So they're assuming you accidentally ended up in the wrong place. That's been going on forever. And yes, for a lot of the best information on AdWords you have to have an account to even get to it. Which is unfortunate.