Opening Access 97 DB in Access for Windows 95

[Manuel]

I just installed Access from a MS Office Professional for
Window 95 CD. I have a DB which was created in Access
97. When I try to open the Access 97 db in the newly
installed Access application, I get an error message
stating 'Index1' isn't an index on this table.

The Help feature is telling me that the Error number is
3015, and provides the following verbiage:

"You tried to use a value that isn't an index. You can
determine the valid index names by looking in the Indexes
collection of the TableDef object."

Help! Can I not open an Access 97 DB in an older version
of Access (again the Access application I installed was
from a Microsoft Office Professional & Bookshelf CD which
was designed for Windows '95)?

I would appreciate any insight anyone can provide.

Thanks,

Manuel

 

[John Spencer (MVP)]

No Access is not backward compatible. In other words, if you have an Access 97
application you need Access 97 or a later version.