If you save the Windows 2000 database in Access 97 format, you can run the
Packaging and Distribution Wizard to create a runtime. As far as I know, you
cannot run the Access 97 P&DW on an Access 2000 or later format database.
Also, installing a later-than-Access-97 runtime on the machine where an
Access 97 runtime is installed can be problematical.
Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP
"Chesne" <ashfield@paradise.net.nz> wrote in message
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> I have just read Larry Linson's reply to another user as follows = "If
> you mean the runtime support in "Visual Studio Tools for Office 2003
> System", which contains the runtime support for Access 2003, then, yes,
> you are correct: that runs only on Windows 2000 Pro with appropriate
> Service Packs or later. If you want to distribute Access databases to
> users who do not have Access, and are using earlier Operating Systems,
> you'll need an earlier version of the runtime which you'll get with
> Office 2000 Developer
> Edition or Office 97 Developer Edition."
> My question is....can I run the Access 97 Package Wizard on Windows
> 2000 Pro and produce a runtime version of an access database which will
> then operate on any operating system from 95, 98, 2000, XP or ME? TIA -
> Chesnie
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