Office 2000 & 2003 compatibility

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Suzette

Hi All,

I have been doing a lot of programming on Access 2000 and still have several
clients who use it. Now I have a client who wants to use Access 2003. I'm
wondering if I write the code in Access 2000, if it will still work in 2003
or does the database have to be converted?

Thanks,

My other option is to get a second hard drive for 2003 and I REALLY don't
want to do that.

I guess another question would be, is it possible in 2003 to save a database
as 2000 format?

Thanks

Suzette
 
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Douglas J. Steele

Just as in Access 2002, the default format used by Access 2003 is actually
the Access 2000 format. You might have a problem if you use external
controls (as your client might have newer versions installed), but other
than that, you should be fine.

Note that if you were programming using Access 2003 and used features that
were new to Access 2003 (or 2002), even though the application is saved in
Access 2000 format, users who only had Access 2000 installed would have
problems.
 
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Albert D. Kallal

I have had up to 4 different versions of ms-access installing on the same
computer.

I now have a97, a2000, and a2003 installed on my pc.

For all a2000, and a2003 stuff, I develop in a2003. (it actually uses the
a2000 format by default). The ONLY thing I can't do in a2003 for a2000 is to
build and distribute a mde for my users (you do use a mde for your
users...right????). So, I only fire up a2000 to make the final mde.

You do need to be carefaull when you install more then one version....

Here is how to install a97 and a2000

ACC2000: How to Install Access 97 and Access 2000 on the Same Computer
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=241141

The above "concepts" works for all versions. The basic idea is to NOT use
the default install dir.....
 
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