Can't open existing Access 2000 as "New"

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Galen

I can not right click on my existing Access 2000 files and
select "New" to open an existing file as a new version.

This is a work computer, with WXP and Office 2000 Pro and
I'm set up as a user, not administrator. Is this possibly
a result of being a user instead of administrator? Our IT
people claim that is not the case. But, they don't know
why I can't open an existing file as "New".

BTW, all of my other Office products (Word, Excel,
Powerpoint) do allow me to right click and open as "New".

Thanks for any feedback.
Galen
 
I'm not sure it's possible to do that with Access files.
Has it worked for you in the past with Access MDB's?
 
BTW, all of my other Office products (Word, Excel,
Powerpoint) do allow me to right click and open as "New".
Click to expand...

Databases are different kinds of things than documents such as Word.
An Access database is a *container* for multiple tables, forms,
reports etc.; it would be very unusual (and often a bad idea) to
create a new .mdb file just to add more data.

You can use Windows Explorer to make a copy of an existing database;
or you can create a new, empty database and use File... Get External
Data... Import to import all the objects from an existing database.
You can choose to import tables "design mode only" to create empty
tables with the same structure.
 
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