Does Access 97 create files with MDE extensions?

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Someone sent us a file with a MDE extension. We cannot open this file and
from what I have read, it isn't an actual database file. We use Access 97.
Are they sending us something that can only be read with Access 2000 or
newer? Thanks!
 
Jan said:
Someone sent us a file with a MDE extension. We cannot open this file and
from what I have read, it isn't an actual database file. We use Access 97.
Are they sending us something that can only be read with Access 2000 or
newer? Thanks!
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An MDE file is an MDB file with all of the source code stripped out of it.
It works exactly like an MDB file except that you cannot view or change the
design of code-based objects (forms. reports, modules).

If you have Access 97 and can't open it then it was likely created in a
newer version in which case you wouldn't be able to open it if it were an
MDB either.
 
Thanks for the information Rick! That's it! It was created with a newer
version of Access.

Jan
 
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