Access 2000 vs Access 2003 - should I have both installed

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Marcus Smaby

I am sure this has been asked to death, sorry!

I do most of my work for my clients in Access 2000. I have Access 2003
sitting in a box and I need to setup a new development station. Is there any
reason that I should install both Access 2000 and Access 2003, since the
default file version for 2003 is the Access 2000 version, or can I just use
2003 and not worry about compatibility issues with my 2000 clients.

TIA

Marcus
 
ACCESS 2003 will work with ACCESS 2000 databases (in fact, 2000 is the
default format for ACCESS 2003 when you first open a new database).

You might want ACCESS 2000 just for testing what you develop in 2003, as
2003 contains features that are not available in 2000. If you don't know
that a feature isn't available, you might use it in your development work
and 2003 won't tell you that the feature isn't available in 2000 (even
though you are using a 2000 format), and then the only way you'll find out,
if you don't test or know, is when your client *informs* you that the
database isn't working.
 
Marcus Smaby said:
I am sure this has been asked to death, sorry!
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FWIW you could search at groups.google.com. But sometimes searching
doesn't work the best either.
I do most of my work for my clients in Access 2000. I have Access 2003
sitting in a box and I need to setup a new development station. Is there any
reason that I should install both Access 2000 and Access 2003, since the
default file version for 2003 is the Access 2000 version, or can I just use
2003 and not worry about compatibility issues with my 2000 clients.
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To add to Ken's posting you can only create an MDE in that version of
Access. IOW you must use A2000 to create an A2000 MDE.

Tony
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