Does Office 2000 and Office XP play well together on the same machine? 2

[DeanConsulting]

Hello,

I would like to know if I can run Office 2000 along-side Office XP on the same machine. I am currently running Office XP on my machine and I have a client that I need to develop and Access 2000 application for. I want to know if I can install Office 2000 with Access 2000 on my machine with Office XP and it not cause any problems.

Thanks in advance,
Noble


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Noble D. Bell

http://www.noblesoftware.com

http://www.noblebell.com

 

[JoeAtWork]

I have Access 97, 2000, and XP on the same machine without problems. It's best to install them in that order. Also make sure to install them in different directories.

Microsoft used to have a white paper on installing different versions of Access on the same computer, google for Q241141.

 

[Ed2020]

Isn't Office XP backwards compatible with Office 2000? Why not just develop an Access 2000 system in Access XP?

You may have to fix some references when you set it up on the customer's machine, but I suspect you may have to do that anyway...

Ed Metcalfe.

Please do not feed the trolls.....

 

[DeanConsulting]

I was thinking that it was possible but I was really not clear on it. I check out the whitepaper.

I don't know if XP is backwords compatiable or not with 2000. I have heard that if you develop an Access application in a higher version of Access that it would not run on a lower version of Access. I know that you can develop on a lower version and have it run on a higher version though. It does merit some investigation though.

nb


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Noble D. Bell

http://www.noblesoftware.com

http://www.noblebell.com

 

[JoeAtWork]

Actually Ed's right, I now do all my Access 2000 development on XP. XP allows you to choose which file format you want to work with, and in fact when you create a new database it always defaults to the 2000 format.

 

[DeanConsulting]

Interesting. So if that is the case then one can assume that if you use Access 2003 then you could create an application and have it run on 2000 and also on XP?


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Noble D. Bell

http://www.noblesoftware.com

http://www.noblebell.com

 

[JoeAtWork]

Yes, that is the case, just make sure the MDB is in 2000 format.

 

[DeanConsulting]

Thanks guys. I will give it a shot.


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Noble D. Bell

http://www.noblesoftware.com

http://www.noblebell.com

 

[Ed2020]

If I remember correctly you can create in whatever format you like and convert backwards at the end.

Not that this only works for Access 2000, XP and 2003. 97 is out I'm afraid.

Ed Metcalfe.

Please do not feed the trolls.....