Access 2000 vrs 2003

[sblanche]

I currently have a large database designed in Access 2000. We will soon be going to MS office 2003. I noticed that Access 2003 has an option for "default file format" to stay at 2000 even if you are using 2003. Since my DB is working fine as a 2000 DB, I am contemplating keeping it in the 2000 file format instead of converting it to 2003. Does anyone see any reason to convert to 2003?

Thanks for any comments--SLB

 

[psemianonymous]

There are only marginal benefits to upgrading to 2003. For the other 99.9% of the time, you'll do fine staying in 2000.

For the record, 2003 does include some built-in functions that help you out if you're doing new development (but obviously won't help you with this existing database).