MS Access 2000 viewer

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Neil Greenough

Like with MS Excel, is there a free MS Access 2000 viewer that can be
downloaded, for those cheap companies who won't fork out for a license to
upgrade to Access 2000?
 
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Van T. Dinh

There is a free Microsoft Access Snapshot Viewer but you need to create a
Report Snapshot for others with the Snapshot Viewer to view the Report.
Table data can be view using other software like Excel.

If you have the Office 2000 Developer's edition, you can distribute the
Access runtime files with your application for users without (full) Access
software to use your database.
 
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Neil Greenough

An organisation I volunteer for are too tight to fork out for an upgrade
from Access 97. So, to save converting my DB designed in 2000 and thus,
changing code etc...., I was just hoping to integrate some sort of Access
2000 viewer

Thanks
 
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Douglas J. Steele

Sorry, there's no such thing.

On the other hand, if you're not using any features new to Access 2000, you
should be able to convert to Access 97 without too much difficult.
 
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Van T. Dinh

Keep the database in A97 format so that the users can use A97 software.

If you need to do design changes in A2000, e.g. you don't have A97, do the
changes in A2000 and convert the database back to A97 format before release.
Make sure you don't use new features that were introduced in A2000.

Perhaps, you need to try the converted (to A97 format) database with A97
software before releasing to users.
 
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Neil Greenough

Thanks all!

Went for the conversion. Just thought would try.

DB is working fine :)
 
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