Running Access 2000 in Windows XP professional

[Charles Delap]

I have Windows XP, and MS Office XP professional installed
on my laptop. I need to run, and edit a MS Access 2000
database. Can I do this, and how?

Any advice welcomed,
Charles Delap

 

[Allen Browne]

Office XP contains Access 2002.
Access 2002 can edit an A2000 database.
It should work easily.

If you plan to switch the database back for use under A2000, consider
decompiling and then compacting it. You decompile a copy of the database by
entering something like this at the command prompt while Access is not
running. It is all one line, and include the quotes:
"c:\Program Files\Microsoft office\office\msaccess.exe" /decompile
"c:\MyPath\MyDatabase.mdb"

Then compile under A2000. (That's because the binaries are different between
the 2 versions.)

 

[Charles Delap]

Thanks Allen for that advice. I'll try it out.

Charles Delap

-----Original Message-----
Office XP contains Access 2002.
Access 2002 can edit an A2000 database.
It should work easily.

If you plan to switch the database back for use under A2000, consider
decompiling and then compacting it. You decompile a copy of the database by
entering something like this at the command prompt while Access is not
running. It is all one line, and include the quotes:
"c:\Program Files\Microsoft

office\office\msaccess.exe" /decompile