3 Versions Of Access on 1 Machine?

[CVegas]

I have two applications to support.

One was written in Acess97 and the other in Access2K.
They are at two differnt locations and are used by two different companies.

The two companies have merged and want me to port and combine the different
functions into 1 application using Access 2003 which they will be using on
the desktops for the new company.

My question is how can I have different versions of access, on my
development machine, and have the correct version activate when I pull up
the application, that was written in that version, without getting the
message that it was created in another version and can not be modified?

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Arvin Meyer]

No problem, I am running 3 versions of Access on this machine. Caveats:

1. The versions need to be installed in order
2. The versions need to be installed in separate directories.
3. You need to rename msaccess.srg (from Access 97) to msaccesssrg.old and
create a new empty one to keep Access 97 from continually re-registering
itself.
4. To read data in all versions, it must remain in Access 97 format.
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[Tony Toews]

My question is how can I have different versions of access, on my
development machine, and have the correct version activate when I pull up
the application, that was written in that version, without getting the
message that it was created in another version and can not be modified?

There are some programs out there which will automatically start the
appropriate version of Access.

One of those is ACCVER - Allows you to work with multiple versions of
MS Access databases. Detects the version of Access used to create your
MDB, MDE or MDA files and either reports the version number or starts
the appropriate version of MS Access. www.aylott.com.au/software.htm

Tony
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