References

[John]

Hi

I have my app in access 2000 and the office version I have is 10.0 (xp).
When I send my app to clients (who have office 9.0/2000) as mde, how does my
application work around the reference problems due to version number
differences?

Thanks

Regards

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

First of all, you can't create an MDE in Access 2000 format in Access 2002.

After that, Access typically cannot correct its references. You really need
to use the same version as your clients.

 

[Brendan Reynolds \(MVP\)]

As Doug indicates elsewhere in this thread, you can't create an MDE in
Access 2002 without first converting the MDB to the Access 2002 format,
after which the MDE will not run under Access 2000. I develop using Access
2002 or, recently, Access 2003, but keep a copy of Access 2000 for final
testing and for creating MDEs for clients who have Access 2000. If you can't
do that, then you'll need to bring your MDB to the client site and create
the MDE there, using their installation of Access 2000.