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Access 97/Access 2000 compatibility

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by grandpafloat

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We are migrating from Office97 to Office2000. I sense there are some incompatibilities. So far I have not found them. I would appreciate some help in finding those incompatibilities or be pointed to where I can find them. I am particularly interested in Access and Excel. I figure the areas of vulerability are in graphical interfaces, macros and VBA code.
Thanks in advance

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by stillatit

The big incompatability area is in Access. Once you open and close an Access 97 database using Access 2000, you will not be able to open it in Access 97 again.

There are MANY differences between 97 and 2000 in all of the Office products. To look at the list, in each Office 2000 application, go to Help, Click the Answer wizard tab, and type "What's new?" in the box and hit Enter.

Good luck.

by dklippert

Excel shouldn't give you any trouble.
Access is the only app that will give you any real problems,but they're workable.
You can open a 97 Access file with A2K; you're given a choice convert or not. You can work with the data. . You can not, however, change the layout of Tables/Forms etc. without converting to the 2K format. After conversion A97 can't understand the new format.

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