Question regarding using Access 2003 or not

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I have a question in General. I work for a large organization which currently supports multiple office suites. From Access 97 - Access 2003 (included in them). We have thousands of databases not all created by IT, but also by other user(s) in various departments. Question:

What would be a good migratory path to move to, to become current and also for support? Migrate to Office XP (Access XP) or Office 2003 (Access 2003)?

Any input/suggestions would be great as we are currently trying to determine this and don't have long to do this. Thanks for any input/suggestions provided.
 
Access 2000, 2002 (XP), and 2003 can all use the same file format, so I
would move everything to one of them to simplify things. In fact, the
default file format for Access 2002 and 2003 is the 2000 file format. If
upgrading a computer to one of these, go for the newest one unless you can
get a good (and legal) cut-rate deal on one of the older versions. Office
2003 will only run on NT5 or newer (i.e. Windows 2000, WinXP, Windows 2003
Server, etc.).

What will limit you still with the mixed versions is that if you use MDE
files, they need to be created with the same version of Access as they will
be used with. Also, any new functionality in the newer versions is not
backwards compatible.

--
Wayne Morgan
Microsoft Access MVP


Julie said:
I have a question in General. I work for a large organization which
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currently supports multiple office suites. From Access 97 - Access 2003
(included in them). We have thousands of databases not all created by IT,
but also by other user(s) in various departments. Question:
What would be a good migratory path to move to, to become current and also
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for support? Migrate to Office XP (Access XP) or Office 2003 (Access 2003)?
Any input/suggestions would be great as we are currently trying to
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determine this and don't have long to do this. Thanks for any
input/suggestions provided.
 
What would be a good migratory path to move to, to become current and also for support? Migrate to Office XP (Access XP) or Office 2003 (Access 2003)?
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Access 2000, 2002 (XP), and 2003 *all* default to using databases in
Access2000 format; upgrades from 97 to 2000 format *usually* go
smoothly.

If it were my shop I'd use XP (if only because I dislike the default
online help in 2003). Users still running 2000 would be able to keep
working and sharing databases; 97 users would need to upgrade their
Access version.
 
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