Converting 97 Access to Access XP

[Kathryn Kenney via AccessMonster.com]

At work I have Office 97 and a database in Access 97 that has been building since sometime in 98 or 99. It has over 11,000 records in it and can not just simply be saved to a diskette. I have to do a back-up to get it from my computer to my co-workers' computers. We are about to have all our computers changed to XP. I have an XP at home and tried once to put the database from work on my home computer but the XP doesn't recognize the backup program. How am I going to get these 11,000 plus records into the XP Access without having to re-enter everything? Surely, there has got to be some way to do this. Any ideas? Please help!!!!

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Try zipping the MDB file: it'll probably fit on a diskette then (11,000
records is a pretty small database, unless you've got images stored for each
record)

 

[Kathryn Kenney via AccessMonster.com]

Thanks for the information Douglas. I'll tell the people at work to try that.