Using Access97

[Francis Cunningham, Jr.]

I have written a database in Access97 and wish to keep it. I recently
installed Office 2000, eliminating Access. When I try to run my database I
now receive a error 'You can't make changes to the database objects ....
this database was created in an earlier verison....
I want to use Access97 I do not want to convert to Access2000

 

[Rick Brandt]

I have written a database in Access97 and wish to keep it. I recently
installed Office 2000, eliminating Access. When I try to run my
database I now receive a error 'You can't make changes to the
database objects .... this database was created in an earlier
verison....
I want to use Access97 I do not want to convert to Access2000

Sounds like you DID install Access 2000 even if that was not your intent.
If you ended up with BOTH versions then you need to know that whichever one
was last opened will take over file associations for all md(x) files.

Just open Access 97 and then it will "take over" and any files you open in
the future will open in Access 97. As long as you don't ever open Access
2000 it should stay that way.

 

[Ragnar Midtskogen]

You can have both 97 and 2000 versions of Access on a machine. When you
installed Office 2000, which includes Access 2000, you had the choice of
keeping the previous version of Access, but you had to set a checkbox to do
it.

There are two ways of installing both, the most reliable way is to uninstall
Office 2000, install Access 97, then reinstall Office 2000.
Make sure you choose to keep previous version.

For details, see this KB article:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=241141

BTW, if you ever have trouble getting help, try searching Google Groups:
http://groups-beta.google.com/advanced_search

It will scan many newsgroups, including this one

Ragnar