Office 2003 Backwards Compatibility Issues

Todd D. Levy

I recently picked up a copy of Office 2003, but have installed it
(replacing my existing installation of Office XP Pro) yet because...

I am in the middle of a client project using Access 2002 with Access
2000 file format (the client has Office 2000 in their offices).

I am concerned that replacing Office XP Pro (Access 2002) with Office
2003 (Access 2003) may cause backward compatibility issues.

Can anyone comment on this?

Nov 12 '05 #1

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Wayne Morgan

The default file format for Access 2003 is the 2000 file format. As long as
you don't use any of the new functionality you should be ok. There may also
be a problem if you try to distribute the final product as an mde file
instead of an mdb file. Both of these drawbacks would also exist under
Access XP creating a file for Access 2000, you just have 2 versions of new
items to accidentally add into your work instead of one.

Another thing you may run into is patch levels. You may need to make sure
that the client has their patches up to date. This means Office 2000 SP3,
Jet 4 SP8, and perhaps MDAC 2.8.

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Wayne Morgan
MS Access MVP
"Todd D. Levy" <us************ **@spamex.com> wrote in message
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I recently picked up a copy of Office 2003, but have installed it
(replacing my existing installation of Office XP Pro) yet because...

I am in the middle of a client project using Access 2002 with Access
2000 file format (the client has Office 2000 in their offices).

I am concerned that replacing Office XP Pro (Access 2002) with Office
2003 (Access 2003) may cause backward compatibility issues.

Can anyone comment on this?

Nov 12 '05 #2

Todd D. Levy

Thanks Wayne.

In article <3d************ ******@newssvr2 4.news.prodigy. com>,
co************* **************@ hotmail.com says...

The default file format for Access 2003 is the 2000 file format. As long as
you don't use any of the new functionality you should be ok. There may also
be a problem if you try to distribute the final product as an mde file
instead of an mdb file. Both of these drawbacks would also exist under
Access XP creating a file for Access 2000, you just have 2 versions of new
items to accidentally add into your work instead of one.

Another thing you may run into is patch levels. You may need to make sure
that the client has their patches up to date. This means Office 2000 SP3,
Jet 4 SP8, and perhaps MDAC 2.8.

Nov 12 '05 #3

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