Upwards compatible

[Liz J]

I have a database written in Access 2002 and I have opened it in Access
2003.

My main data entry form no longer displays properly.

I have always thought that this type of software is backwards compatible.
Is that not true of Access 2003?

Liz

 

[Albert D.Kallal]

access 2002, and 2003 share the same file format.

So, from a compatibility point of view..they are really much the same.

Further, both a2002, and a2003 actually default to the a2000 format.

So, my bets are that you actually have a a2000 mdb file!!!

I would open up the a2002 code, and do a debug-compile. Does the code
compile on the a2002 box?

Likely, this sounds more like a reference problem. You can read about his
here...

Allen Browne
http://allenbrowne.com/ser-38.html

Doug Steele:
http://members.rogers.com/douglas.j.steele/AccessReferenceErrors.html

Peter Walker:
http://www.papwalker.com/dllhell/index-page2.html

 

[Guest]

Hi Liz,

My main data entry form no longer displays properly.

What doesn't display properly? Perhaps you have a missing reference
problem, as Albert suggests. On the other hand, perhaps you have a difference
in screen resolution that causes forms to appear different.


Tom

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[Liz J]

access 2002, and 2003 share the same file format.

So, from a compatibility point of view..they are really much the same.

Further, both a2002, and a2003 actually default to the a2000 format.

So, my bets are that you actually have a a2000 mdb file!!!

I would open up the a2002 code, and do a debug-compile. Does the code
compile on the a2002 box?

Likely, this sounds more like a reference problem. You can read about his
here...

Allen Browne
http://allenbrowne.com/ser-38.html

Doug Steele:
http://members.rogers.com/douglas.j.steele/AccessReferenceErrors.html

Peter Walker:
http://www.papwalker.com/dllhell/index-page2.html


--
Albert D. Kallal (Access MVP)
Edmonton, Alberta Canada
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.members.shaw.ca/AlbertKallal

Many thanks Albert, I'll give that a go. It is possible the db was
originally written in Access 2000.

Cheers.
PS The link to Doug Steele's site doesn't seem to work.

 

[Guest]

Hi Liz,

Try this link instead for Doug Steele's write-up:

Access Reference Problems (Doug Steele)
http://www.accessmvp.com/djsteele/AccessReferenceErrors.html


And, here is another page on this subject:

Fixing Missing References (Jeff Conrad)
http://home.bendbroadband.com/conradsystems/accessjunkie/references.html


Tom

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