data format

[Guest]

I am doing a course on access with office 2000 at school, I save the
excerises on a floppy to practice at home where i have windows xp with office
97 installed, it seems everytime i try to open files from floppy access does
not know what format they are, can anyone help me out with this as i have
exams and am getting no practice at home, thanks for any info.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Access 97 cannot read the Access 2000 format.

When you're saving, go to Tools | Database Utilities and save the file in
Access 97 format. Note that if you're using features of Access 2000 that
aren't available in Access 97, your conversion will be incomplete.

 

[John Vinson]

I am doing a course on access with office 2000 at school, I save the
excerises on a floppy to practice at home where i have windows xp with office
97 installed, it seems everytime i try to open files from floppy access does
not know what format they are, can anyone help me out with this as i have
exams and am getting no practice at home, thanks for any info.

Access isn't installed with the basic version of Office - just with
Office 2000 Pro. Are you certain that Access even exists on your home
computer? Do a search for "msaccess.exe" in Windows Explorer to see.


John W. Vinson[MVP]

 

[Guest]

John thanks for reply, yes access is installed I have office pro 1997 it was
given to me to help with exams.

 

[Guest]

Douglas thanks for taking time to reply and I will try what you advised.