selecting Access 2000 or "Access 2002" with the Convert Database command

[Paul James]

I'm getting ready to convert a number of Access 97 mdb files to Access 2002.
I'm looking over the instructions for doing this in the "Using MS Access
2002 - Special Edition" written by Roger Jennings. In that book, it says to
select Tools - Database Utilities - Convert Database - To Access 2000 file
format.

Since this book is for Access 2002, I was surprised that it would suggest
selecting the 2000 file format instead of 2002. I'm thinking this just a
typo - but I thought I'd also check with this newsgroup to see if anyone
knows of a reason why someone working in 2002 would want to select Access
2000 as the file format for conversion.

Does anyone know if this is more than a typo, and if it's really suggesting
you select the 2000 file format for conversion when you're using 2002?

Thanks in advance.

Paul

 

[Cheryl Fischer]

Since this book is for Access 2002, I was surprised that it would suggest

selecting the 2000 file format instead of 2002. I'm thinking this just a
typo - but I thought I'd also check with this newsgroup to see if anyone
knows of a reason why someone working in 2002 would want to select Access
2000 as the file format for conversion.

If a developer owns Access 2002 but has a client that uses Access 2000,
converting the database to (or creating it in) Access 2000 would be the
thing to do. However, IMO, if you need the databases in Access 2002, then
you should convert them to 2002.

 

[Paul James]

If a developer owns Access 2002 but has a client that uses Access 2000,

converting the database to (or creating it in) Access 2000 would be the
thing to do. However, IMO, if you need the databases in Access 2002, then
you should convert them to 2002.

That makes sense. Since all my clients are in 2002, I'll convert it to that
version.

Thank you, Cheryl