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Office XP and Access2000

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by bodan3

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I have a client that needs to run Access 2000 and want to use Office XP in all other regards.
I have tried to find a workaround for this problem (to get the 2 versions to work together)
The problem that arises with this versionconflict is that theclient has an Access database that is built in Access-97 and gets run errors when run under AccessXP.

Is there anyone that know how to workaround to run OfficeXP and Access2000 together ?

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by dennis_curry

I have not tested the issue of Office 2000 and Office XP but I did have a simular issue when I wanted to run Access 97 and Office 2000. What I did was remove the Office2000 from my system. I install Office97 but created a new folder when the install screen asked for the install directory. I changed the default directory to a different Office Route name. Example: C:\Office97 and the install installed all of the Office products for 97 under this folder. I then reinstalled Office 2000 using thedefault install directory. This allowed the two versions of Office to run on my system. You will need to create a Icon for the first Office(97) and one for Office (2000). Again, I have not tried this with Office 2000 and Office XP. However, if you are trying to run a formated Access97 database in Access XP without error, that is not possible.

by bodan3

Thanks for the effort but now we have come up with another solution on the problem, we just install an WmWare instance to get to run the latest MS software in a secluded area as to not disturb the daily work and to keep the standard that we have on the PC's

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