Installing Office XP with Office 97

[Jcan]

Hi everyone, I am an application specialist at a small company and we are planning to deploy Office XP on a few pc's for some clients. The problem is there is an application on those pc's that were developed in Access 97. How safe is it to upgrade Office to XP or should i try to install both versions on the same pcs instead? will it trash the system? I don't want to create a disaster zone (smile)

Thanks a lot for your input.

 

[MasterRacker]

You can look here to see how to run Access 2000 and Access 97 together:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q241141

I Imagine XP would behave about the same way as 2000.

Access XP can read a 97 DB fine, it can't modifiy the structure without upgrading. You can enter data however.

If your 97 DBs are structured in the normal front-end/back-end way for sharing (the front end has all the forms, queries, reports,etc. and a copy is placed on each client machine while the back-end is on the server and is just tables) you could convert a copy of the front-end to have two front-ends: 1 in Access97 and 1 in Access2K. They both link to the shared Access97 tables. Each client gets the front-end they need.
Jeff
I haven't lost my mind - I know it's backed up on tape somewhere ....