RE: 2003 to 97

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From: Kelly (kelly_r_tyler_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:57:30 -0700

Thanks a lot Amy -- that sounds exactly like what I would
like to do and I'll definitely give it a shot.

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Kelly,
>
>My name is Amy Vargo. Thank you for using the Microsoft
Access Newsgroups.
> You can convert an Access 2002/2003 database to 97
format. To do so, open
>your database in Access 2003. Go to the menu bar and
choose Tools,
>Database Utilities, Convert Database, to Access 97 File
Format. You cannot
>directly open an Access 97 database in Access 2003. You
must convert it,
>and vice versa. You cannot open an Access 2003 database
in Access 97.
>Another option would be to split the database. You can
create an Access 97
>backend file that contains the tables and use different
97 and 2003
>databases as frontends that are linked to the tables in
the backend, but of
>course each having it's own other local objects. This
way users with
>multiple versions of Access can still share the same
data.
>
>I hope this helps! If you have additional questions on
this topic, please
>respond back to this posting.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Amy Vargo
>Microsoft Access Engineer
>
>
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