Access 2003 with Office 2007?

[Albert]

I have Office 2007 installed under Vista 64. I also have an official
installation disk for Access 2003 which I used with XP on my previous PC
which is no longer in use.

Does anyone know if this can be installed alongside Office 2007, both from a
practical and a legal point of view?

Not a real problem if it can't, I have OO Base, but I prefer Access if it
will work.

 

[Tom van Stiphout]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:46:59 +0100, "Albert" <[email protected]>
wrote:

I am not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure you are allowed to install
A2003 if it is no longer installed on the previous machine.

From a practical point of view it works as well, as long as you don't
need to switch back and forth all the time. Every switch takes a
while, because Access needs to do some registry magic.

You know you can develop A2003 databases with A2007, right? That's
what I do, and I only switch to A2003 (on a virtual machine) for
compact and for CreateMde.

-Tom.
Microsoft Access MVP

 

[Albert]

Thank you Tom,

Just to clarify, I am not wanting to install A2003 alongside A2007 and
switch between them. I have Office 2007 without Access and just want "a"
version of Access that I can use if it is possible.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

That shouldn't be a problem, as long as you still have a valid license for
Access 2003.

 

[Albert]

Thanks very much both Tom and Doug.

I have now installed it and all seems well.

regards

Albert