Access 2000 and Access 2003 compatibility

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Toni

I created an access application in Access 2000 which was used company wide.

The Network Administrator has started to upgrade some users to Access 2003 (I also have Access 2003). When I make a change to the application (add a new button to a form, create a new query, etc) the users who are still running Access 2000 have trouble running the application. It does not show any errors but when it opens up the main menu (which I created using the Switchboard manager), nothing happens when they click on the buttons. If I run the same application on my PC which is running Access 2003, I have no problems.

Any ideas on what could be wrong?
 
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Toni

More info about my problem. I have Windows XP and the users that are having problems with the database have Windows 2000.
 
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anthony

As far as I know, none of the versions of Access is upward compactible. This means, access 97 can't read, access 2000. Access 2000 can't read 2003. They are downward compactible, though. So, if you have written the database in 2003, it stands to reason that access 2000 can't run it properly. Once a older database has been opend by a newer version, it's converted to the higher version, not allowing the older versions to read it properly

Hope this helps.
 
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