Luis said:
Hi. I've a dB (40 MB) made it in ACCESS 2003 and I need to "share it" with
another 06 differents pc's without any Access software; all of them with XP
or Windows 2000. Question: Have sense if I install the Access Runtime 2007
(free) in all this 6 pc's and then share my dB with them? Or I "must" to buy
the Developer License?
Yes, that makes a lot of sense.
Be prepared for a few annoying hopefully minor problems. Allen Browne
has a page on that topic.
www.allenbrowne.com/Access2007.html
You will likely want to hide the room taken up by A2007 ribbon though.
From a discussion we MVPs had on this problem.
The mentioned approach is also documented here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb258174.aspx
Set Access 2003 to use a custom menu bar
Using Access 2003, open your legacy database.
On the Tools menu, click Startup.
The Startup dialog box appears.
From the Menu Bar list, select your custom menu bar.
Note
You must select a menu bar. You cannot select a toolbar.
Clear the Allow Built-in Toolbars check box, click OK, and then close
the database.
When you open the database in Access 2007, Access shows the Message
Bar (if necessary), the custom menu bar set for the database, and any
other startup settings, such as a form and any custom toolbars.
Note that i hadn't bothered doing that last step before. So from now
on
when I open my MDB I'm going to have to remember to hold down the
shift key. Then manually run the autoexec macro. No big deal as I've
done that when doing work for folks who run their systems that way.
Tony
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