2000 Apps. vs. 97 Apps.

A major reason to upgrade to Office 2000 is it's new web abilities. For companies that run intranets, Office 2000 is designed to function best in this environment. This includes the ability to publish word/excel/powerpoint documents directly as a web page. In addition, Outlook 2000 provides you with the ability to create a "digital dashboard" and the mail filtering capabilities are much better.

There are some nice new features to Access 2K however unless you are going to take advantage of them I wouldnt wast the money. Wait for the next Access release and check out its "bells and whistles" before spending the bucks since Access 97 is extremely powerful as well.

You should be careful when upgrading to Office 2K.
1. Access 2K will open and convert Access 97 databases however Access 97 will no longer be able to open that converted database. Also if you did not create the database check with the person who did, there may be some VBA code that will no longer work.
If you work with Access Be Careful!

I program in both Access 97 and 2000. Access 2000 has a 'save as previous version' option which i have found to work quite well, but then again, I havent tried to convert anything back that does anything too out of the normal. Be prepared to 'fiddle' a little, but everything should be backward compatible. Just watch what reference libraries you use as 2000 by default loads the ActiveX components library instead of DAO 3.6 library.

Personally, I prefer 2000 because the VBA between Word, Excel and Outlook are much better. But Im quite happy using 97. I havent done much with the Data Access Pages, but I have no need for them yet.

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